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Moratuwa Mayor remanded

Moratuwa Mayor remanded

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Moratuwa Mayor Samanlal Fernando who was arrested this morning for allegedly threatening a female doctor and ... Read More

Travel restrictions to continue till June

Travel restrictions to continue till June

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The ongoing travel restrictions will continue until June 7 and will not be relaxed on May ... Read More

Special circular to physicians on determining COVID deaths

Special circular to physicians on determining COVID deaths

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardana has issued a special circular to all ... Read More

Sri Lanka – UK discuss friendly cricket match between MPs of two Parliaments

Sri Lanka – UK discuss friendly cricket match between MPs of two Parliaments

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Saroja Sirisena and Speaker of the House ... Read More

President to decide today on travel restriction

President to decide today on travel restriction

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The COVID-19 taskforce will meet President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at 11 am today to discuss the present ... Read More

Sri Lanka, World Bank ink new EU grant to boost local agriculture sector

Sri Lanka, World Bank ink new EU grant to boost local agriculture sector

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Ministry of Finance and the World Bank recently signed a new grant from the European ... Read More

Dehiwala and Mirihana among areas more COVID infections detected

Dehiwala and Mirihana among areas more COVID infections detected

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Dehiwala and Mirihana are among the areas new Covid infections were detected, officials said today. (more…) Read More

Moratuwa Mayor arrested for disrupting the duties of health workers

Moratuwa Mayor arrested for disrupting the duties of health workers

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Moratuwa Mayor Samanlal Fernando has been arrested for disrupting the duties of health workers. (more…) Read More

Legal action against X-Press Pearl owners

Legal action against X-Press Pearl owners

May 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) had lodged a complaint with the Colombo Harbour Police in ... Read More

Injured Foakes out of England Test squad as Hameed and Billings brought in

Injured Foakes out of England Test squad as Hameed and Billings brought in

May 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - England wicketkeeper Ben Foakes will miss the two Tests against New Zealand in June with a ... Read More

Jofra Archer ready to miss summer to be fit for T20 World Cup and Ashes

Jofra Archer ready to miss summer to be fit for T20 World Cup and Ashes

May 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Fast bowler Jofra Archer is ready to "sit out the summer" in order to be fit ... Read More

Different vaccines given to 20 in India jab mix up

Different vaccines given to 20 in India jab mix up

May 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Twenty people in north India have been given two different coronavirus jabs for their first and ... Read More

Biden orders urgent new report on COVID origins

Biden orders urgent new report on COVID origins

May 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - US President Joe Biden has ordered intelligence officials to "redouble" efforts to investigate the origins of ... Read More

Speaker signs Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill

Speaker signs Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill

May 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane has signed validating the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill which was ... Read More

X-Press Pearl was denied entry in India and Qatar before catching fire off Colombo – Report

X-Press Pearl was denied entry in India and Qatar before catching fire off Colombo – Report

May 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The burning ship, X-Press Pearl, at the centre of an environmental catastrophe off Sri Lanka was ... Read More