The one-and-a-half-months-old infant, who was rescued from the five-storey building that has caved in at Buwelikada in Kandy, has died, police say.

A mother who allegedly strangled her 40-day-old baby was remanded for 14 days.

Investigations have revealed that the suspect has strangled the baby with a piece of clothing.

The suspect is a resident of Vanniya Road around Batticaloa Police Headquarters.

The baby’s body was later found in well by the Police.

Further investigations are carried out by the Batticaloa Police.

05 more arrivals from Saudi Arabia tested positive for Covid-19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,147.

Rescue teams have launched a search operation in the rubble of a building in the capital, Beirut, to find a man considered to be still alive a month after a bomb exploded.

This was after a human heartbeat was recorded on a special sensor device. 

The blast killed 191 people, while seven are still reported missing.

The fire on board the oil tanker MT New Diamond has now been brought under control, says the Sri Lanka Navy.

The Indian Coastguard that joined in the operation tweeted that its specialist team and tug ALP Winger connected tow and commenced towing to prevent drifting of vessel to shallow waters around 7.00 pm yesterday (04).

 

Politicians expressed their views regarding the 20th amendment to the constitution.

 

Puttalam Forest Officer W. N. C. K  Wasala said that legal action will be taken against those involved in the destruction of the Kalpitiya Pallivasalthurai Mangroves which was exposed by Hiru CIA.

Following the revelation, forest officials and the police inspected the area today, where the mangroves were destroyed.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of Kalpitiya requested the Hiru CIA team not to reveal the destruction of the relevant mangroves an attempted to pay bribes to the team.

Forest conservation officer Devanee Jayathilaka, who came into public limelight with her efforts to protect Sinnaditottum islet in Negombo, has once again earned attention.

In a facebook post, she invites a willing person to exchange a land, the only property to her name, for a land at Lankagama and says she will transfer it to the ownership of the Sinharaja.

22 arrivals from Qatar tested positive for Covid-19, increasing total in Sri Lanka to 3,071.