Tag: Colombo

Isolation lifted in several areas in Batticaloa, Colombo, Gampaha

Isolation lifted in several areas in Batticaloa, Colombo, Gampaha

Jul 13, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Isolation status lifted in Grama Niladhari Divisions in Batticaloa, Colombo, and Gampaha Districts with effect from ... Read More

Alpha and Delta COVID-variants detected in Sri Lanka

Alpha and Delta COVID-variants detected in Sri Lanka

Jun 10, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Multiple COVID-19 variants, including the highly transmissible Alpha variant has been detected in Sri Lanka. (more…) Read More

Adverse weather affects over 240,000, 14 dead

Adverse weather affects over 240,000, 14 dead

Jun 6, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) stated that 14 people died and two reported missing, while 245,212 ... Read More

Over 170,000 affected by adverse weather

Over 170,000 affected by adverse weather

Jun 5, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - A total of 170,022 people of 41,717 families were affected by the prevailing adverse weather conditions ... Read More

COVID-vaccination programme to continue at five districts today

COVID-vaccination programme to continue at five districts today

May 30, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The COVID-19 vaccination drive will continue at eighteen centres in the Jaffna, Colombo, Matara, Kurunegala and ... Read More

Colombo Port employee strike enters day 3

Colombo Port employee strike enters day 3

Aug 2, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The strike action by employees of the Colombo Port enters its third day today. Employees of ... Read More

Colombo Port employees strike continues

Colombo Port employees strike continues

Jul 30, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The indefinite fast launched by several employees of the Colombo Port which commenced last evening along ... Read More

Colombo Port employees launch fasting campaign

Colombo Port employees launch fasting campaign

Jul 30, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Several employees of the Colombo Port have commenced an indefinite fast opposite the Bandaranayke door along ... Read More

‘Colombo will develop under well designed plan’

‘Colombo will develop under well designed plan’

Jul 29, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says Colombo will be developed under a well-designed plan while addressing main issues faced ... Read More

PCR tests in Colombo postponed

PCR tests in Colombo postponed

Jul 18, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The PCR testing programme which was to be conducted in Colombo North has been postponed because ... Read More

Water cuts in Colombo & suburbs on Saturday

Water cuts in Colombo & suburbs on Saturday

Jul 17, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) announced 10-hour and 16-hour water cuts in Colombo ... Read More

Indian involved in fraud arrested in Colombo

Indian involved in fraud arrested in Colombo

Jul 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - An Indian national has been arrested in Bambalapitiya, Colombo on charges of defrauding the public by ... Read More

Water supply for parts of Colombo disrupted tonight

Water supply for parts of Colombo disrupted tonight

Jun 27, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Water supply for several areas in Colombo will be suspended for 18 hours today (27), says ... Read More

New lab at Colombo East Base Hospital

New lab at Colombo East Base Hospital

Jun 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - A state of the art laboratory that can conduct 500 PCR tests daily will be declared ... Read More

Water supply for parts of Colombo suspended for 15 hours tomorrow

Water supply for parts of Colombo suspended for 15 hours tomorrow

Jun 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The water supply for several areas in Colombo will be suspended for 15 hours tomorrow (14), ... Read More