Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga who briefed Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on Tuesday (21st January 2014) on ‘Progress in the reconciliation process in Sri Lanka’, has said the Government of Sri Lanka has done all that was humanly possible to implement the recommendations of the […]
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Japan has encouraged and assisted leading Japanese television stations to promote Sri Lanka. As a result, seven documentaries have been telecast in 2013 depicting Sri Lankan culture, world heritage sites, places of tourist attraction, investment opportunities available and history of Japan-Sri Lanka relations. […]
(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Statistics Office said on Wednesday it will sack one of its top officials for disobedience and leaking internal information after he said that economic growth data compiled by the office was inflated last year. Opposition legislators have criticised President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government, saying it has long overstated growth estimates and […]
The four popular artistes,former Miss Sri Lanka and popular model Gayesha Perera, famous singer Ginger, Popular actress Ruwanthi Mangala and Malsha Kumaratunga, daughter of Minister Jeevan Kumaratunga who faced the Nomination Board of the SLFP recently revealed in an interview with Daily Mirror why they decided to enter politics and what they would do if […]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa welcomed Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and his delegation this morning to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo where bilateral talks took place. Following a one-on-one conversation between the two leaders, the delegations of the two countries partook in bilateral discussions spanning a wide variety of sectors. […]
Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Thilina Gamage ordered the lawyers who appeared for the suspect to make a complaint to the IGP, against the police officer of the Kollupitiya Police Station who had videotaped, using his camera phone, the young female suspect nude, during a raid of a so-called massage parlour. […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa who arrived at the Abu Dhabi Capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a one-day state visit has attended the opening ceremony of the 7th World Future Energy Summit (WFES) and Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony-2014 last evening (20 January) at the Abu […]
Not a single fisherman from TN has been killed by the Sri Lankan Navy since April 2011 in Indian waters, the Central Government has informed the Madras HC (Madurai Bench). Further no warships were being sold to Lanka and only Offshore Patrol Vehicles (OPVs) would be traded. […]