President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (14) has instructed the Ministry of Health to expedite the approval process for medicines approved for local use.

The Colombo High Court today (14) sentenced Garnia Bannister Francis, a local employee of the Swiss Embassy in Colombo, to a two year prison term with hard labour, suspended for five years.

Untrained teachers are a main reason for the failures in primary education, claimed education minister Susil Premajayantha.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the importance of financial discipline in nation-building and announced plans to promptly introduce formal measures to control public expenditure and generate new government revenue.

Sri Lanka is likely to discuss energy, power and port projects during a presidential visit to New Delhi next week, the foreign minister said this week, as India tries to push forward stalled initiatives with its crisis-hit neighbour.

A patient died at Panadura Base Hospital yesterday (13) following a suspected infection via a cannula inserted to him.

The National People's Power (NPP) says it remains prepared to talk to any party in the event of a future political change.

Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has lamented a ruined condition of the health service, saying that it has now become a terrorizer of the
public.