: With cyclone Burevi set to make landfall from the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka tonight (Dec. 02), evacuation measures are underway in the districts of Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Mullaitivu, and Jaffna. In the Trincomalee District… As of now, 297 families in high-risk areas were evacuated to relief centres, while another 1700 people have [12/2/2020] …
: Cyclonic storm Burevi is located 110 km east-southeast of Trincomalee, the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at the Department of Meteorology in its latest weather advisory issued at 5:00 pm on Wednesday (Dec. 02) said. The Department of Meteorology predicts that cyclonic storm Burevi will make landfall in Sri Lanka’s East Coast [12/2/2020] …
Justice Minister Ali Sabry said he had sought a report from the Attorney General on fugitive former Central Bank Governor Arjun Mahendran. “I was made to understand there are some developments on the matter,†he said. The Sri Lankan Government has sought the extradition of Mahendran from Singapore over the Central Bank Treasury [12/2/2020] …
: The Disaster Management Centre, National Building Research Organisation, Department of Meteorology, National Disaster Relief Services Centre, and the Department of Irrigation that come under the purview of the Ministry of Disaster Management, are geared to face any disaster situation that may arise, the Department of Government Information said on Wednesday (Dec. 02). [12/2/2020] …
The cyclonic storm ‘ BUREVI over the south-west Bay of Bengal, is now 140 km east-southeast of Trincomalee at 1130 hrs today (02nd December), said the Met Department issuing a warning. The system is very likely to move west-northwestwards and cross the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka between Trincomalee and Point-Pedro, close to [12/2/2020] …
COLOMBO (News1st): Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has said the country would have plunged into an economic crisis if the government had not implemented damage control measures. Sri Lanka has been able to move forward while meticulously managing the economy during this period (the COVID-19) pandemic, Rajapaksa said in a statement on Wednesday. He pointed out [12/2/2020] …
: A total of 487 COVID-19 patients were discharged today (Dec. 02), raising the total number of recoveries in Sri Lanka to 18,304, the Epidemiology Unit at the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday (Dec. 02). The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country stands at 24,532. Another 6106 active COVID-19 [12/2/2020] …
: The Disaster Management Centre and the respective District Secretariats are fully prepared to face any disaster situation that may arise with cyclonic storm Burevi set to make landfall this evening (Dec. 02), Major General (Retd.) Kamal Gunaratne, Secretary of Defence said. The Ministry of Defence has issued instructions to the Sri Lanka [12/2/2020] …
Maj. Gen. (Retd) Sudantha Ranasinghe, the Director-General of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said people who need to be evacuated from areas that can be affected by cyclone Burevi, were identified in late November, and they are being moved to evacuation centers. Speaking on a live program on Cyclone Burevi, he said [12/2/2020] …
COLOMBO (News1st): Sri Lanka has signed an agreement to obtain a loan worth USD 400 million from the Asian Development Bank to uplift the secondary education sector in the country. The loan was borrowed at an annual interest rate of 0.5 percent with a repayment period of 26 years including a five year grace period, [12/2/2020] …
