It has been a month since the arrest of the leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) and Wanni District MP Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother Riaz Bathiudeen.

The Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) has condemned attempts by the government to provide special privileges to the family members of doctors affiliated to a certain trade union with regard to administering the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Noting that Sri Lanka requires around 30 million Covid-19 vaccines and that it will be difficult to bring down that number of vaccines this year, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that there is a need to think anew and formulate a new programme for the COVID pandemic.

The College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka has expressed grave concerns about the current process and the direction of Sri Lanka's COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested an Assistant Land Settlement Commissioner currently working in Kotmale.

The Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar has acquitted the Chairman of the Avant Garde Maritime Services Company Nissanka Senadhipathi and the seven other defendants over the operating of a floating armoury case.

Sri Lanka’s medical professionals yesterday urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to immediately impose a minimum 14-day islandwide lockdown to contain the rapid spread of the COVID-19.

The United National Party (UNP) has extended an invitation to its members who have strayed in the past to return to the party ranks and support the UNP's future endeavors.

Former Western Province Governor Azath Salley who was detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, has been admitted to the National Hospital in Colombo following a heart attack.

The United National Party (UNP) welcomed the determination by the Supreme Court in regards the Colombo Port City Economic Commission bill.