Sri Lanka’s 2011 tea production records 328.3 million kilograms Sri Lanka’s tea production during the year 2011...
Treasury bill auction Sri Lanka’s weekly treasury bill auction held today...
Sri Lanka says, it will impose spot fines against drivers and passengers travelling in the front seat of the vehicles without wearing seat belts.
Cabinet of Ministers have given their consent to go ahead with the proposal by amending the motor traffic act.
As of now, the implementation of the fines for this offense is being carried [...]
Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry is planning to establish an early warning system for dengue in the country with an investment of 1.1 million euro’s.
The move is a part of the European Commissions effort to set up a multi country project in the developing countries to fight dengue as the virus is posing a serious threat [...]
The Competition between private health care providers, particularly in Colombo has increased with customers demanding for quality services going up, says a Equity Research Report published by a brokering firm.
Bartleet Religare Securities publishing an equity research report on Nawaloka Hospitals says, the health care industry is such that hospitals are under constant pressure to have [...]
Sri Lanka has decided to implement a system to assess the health conditions of foreigners who apply for Resident Visas to remain in the country, in future.
Authorities say, it has been observed that after the end of the conflict, there has been a quite a large number of foreigners who are remaining in Sri Lanka [...]
A Saudi hospital has found seven nails inside the body of a Sri Lankan housemaid working in Saudi Arabia, after she was admitted to the hospital complaining of pain.
According to the Saudi media the 22 year old Balasubramaniam Shashikala has complained of pain when she was admitted to the Damman Central Hospital on Saturday.
Doctors have [...]
Natascha Maria Kampusch born in 17th February 1988 in Vienna was abducted by a stranger when she was just 10 years of age while she was on her way to school.
Since then she was held captive by her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil for 8 years.
During the eight years of her captivity, Kampusch was held in a [...]
By Brandon Griggs, CNN
(CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56.
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal [...]
Sri Lanka spends nearly half a billion rupees to prevent and control rabies per annum says Health officials.
Dr. P.L Harischandra, the Director of Veterinary of the Ministry of Health says, Rs. 350 million of it goes to treat around 250,000 rabies patients reported every year.
Another Rs. 100 million is spent on controlling the dog population [...]
A Sri Lankan medical team will leave to Pakistan today to help the South Asian country fight the fast spreading Dengue virus in that country.
The 11 member team’s visit comes following a request made by the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo, which sought Sri Lankan assistance to curb the growing dengue menace in Pakistan.
The Sri [...]
Atomic Energy Authority warns the public, not to get their X-ray images from medical institutes who have not got a license to operate an X-ray machine.
The Authority says they have got information regarding several health firms that operates X- ray machines without their approval.
Hence, the AEA advices the public to check whether the particular organization, [...]
President Rajapaksa inspecting the “Tyson bite”
Sri Lanka host “Ayubowan China”
An Indian teacher finds $9.8bn in his bank balance
Deepawali celebrations at the Temple Trees
Cruise ship “Costa Concordia” sinks
The navy saves “The Greyhound of the sea”
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani arrives in Sri Lanka