The ministry of Sports has made physical fitness activities in schools compulsory and deemed that and every child should engage in at least one sport.

The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) of the Southern province will initiate a noise pollution control programme to create awareness on over-use of vehicle horns disturbing and upsetting road users, including pedestrians.

The Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Landmines (SLCBL) has urged the government to hold a technical research to ensure that Sri Lankan lands are mine free if they intend to resettle all IDPs within 06 months.

President Maithripala Sirisena is firm on bringing about a new constitution, Foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera says.

National Fish Workers Forum today thanked the Sri Lanka government for its goodwill gesture ahead of Pongal festival to release all 104 Indian fishermen arrested by the island nation's Navy.

Doubts have been raised over the sudden withdrawal of funds from the account of a healing home for differently abled war veterans, days after the Presidential election in 2015.

A constitutional council will be established for the purpose of a constitutional amendment only, and not for the formulation of a new constitution, reports say.