Hi Experts, I am planning to visit Srilanka for full 10 days from April end till first week of May(2018) with my wife, mother and 2 year old son.11th day I will leave Srilanka. Can you please guide me on following questions. 1) I understood that…
Local elections across Sri Lanka on Saturday were supposed to be about small issues, like installing street lighting for some neighborhoods and improving garbage sweeping in others. But the country’s first post-war national government has stagnated, with the governing coalition partners at each other’s …
Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga today sentenced former DIG Vass Gunawardena to five years rigorous imprisonment after he was found guilty of threatening to kill the then ASP now CID director Shani Abeysekara, who questioned him during the inve…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s 2018 local government election has been described by monitors as the most peaceful in decades. The release of results though is another story. It is the technical debacle of the 21st century. The independent Election Commission had set up a state-of-the art system to …
COLOMBO, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) have won a local government election held in the island country after the party won 239 local bodies out of 340, results released by the Elections Commission …
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s former leader Mahinda Rajapakse on Monday demanded a snap general election and challenged his successor’s right to govern after drubbing the ruling coalition in crucial mid-term polls. Rajapakse’s new party secured two-thirds of Sri Lanka’s councils in a surprise blitz of local …
Sri Lanka’s former leader Mahinda Rajapakse on Monday demanded a snap general election and challenged his successor’s right to govern after drubbing the ruling coalition in crucial mid-term polls. Rajapakse’s new party secured two-thirds of Sri Lanka’s councils in a surprise blitz of local elections, …
Rajapaksa ruled Sri Lanka for nine years beginning in 2005 and had widely been expected to win an unprecedented third term in the 2015 poll. He had built up immense power and was popular among the country’s majority ethnic Sinhalese after overseeing the military’s brutal defeat of ethnic Tamil …
Ooredoo will be the Platinum sponsor of the programme this year, too. The Pathum Danansooriya Cultural Ensemble is being flown in from Sri Lanka for the celebrations. The troupe will be performing traditional dances and will enthralled audiences across…
It is learnt that Simon Willis decided to hand his resignation as high-performance manager of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) due to personal reasons and he would serve a six-month notice period. cricket Updated: Feb 12, 2018 16:09 IST. Asian News Internationa…