After four years of research, a team of reserachers from Peradeniya University, led by senior Prof. Indika Gavarammana, has developed an antitoxin for snake venom.

A racket to re-export arecanut is underway despite the government’s having suspended the issuance of the required permits, ‘Sathhanda’ reports.

The CIC agro-company has imported a consignment of fertilizer containing the banned heavy metal cadmium in breach of regulations pertaining to the importation of chemical fertilizer.

Information has come to light about an account belonging to a Rajapaksa family member at a London bank, which has 3.88 billion pound sterling in it, a senior minister has told ‘Sathhanda.’

Only around 1,500 out of the 3,020 pharmacies in Sri Lanka have a licensed pharmacist, which is said to be mandatory by law, ‘Ravaya’ reports quoting the association of pharmaceutical drug traders.

President Maithripala Sirisena on October 22 revealed to the country that the President’s House at Colombo Fort has an underground super-luxury palace connected to it.

The Maxwell Paranagama commission report concedes that some of the LTTE members, who had given themselves up following a call by the armed forces for surrender, had gone missing, ‘Ravaya’ reports.