COLOMBO (News 1st) – Expressway Projects, including ongoing projects, have been plagued with allegations of unnecessary spending and improper feasibility studies on countless occasions in the recent past. What causes such situations to arise? The total…
80 athletes represented Sri Lanka at this years Commonwealth Games. Hosts Australia topped the medals table with 80 gold medals, 59 silver and 59 bronze for a total of 198 medals. England was placed second with 45 gold medals while India came in third …
Iranian lawmakers in Tehran on Sunday had ratified a bill on the extradition treaty between the governments of Islamic Republic of Iran and Sri Lanka, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. It said the Bill secured 153 ‘yes’ votes, 11 ‘no’ votes and seven abstentions. A total of 203 lawmakers had …
Sri Lanka joins Commonwealth alliance to fight against plastic pollution … Apr 15, London: British Prime Minister Theresa May Sunday announced that Sri Lanka along with New Zealand, and Ghana has joined the Commonwealth Clean Oceans Alliance to join …
Apr 15, Colombo: Sri Lanka Navy has rendered its assistance to bring a distressed foreign sailing ship in deep seas off the Southern Coast to the Galle Harbor yesterday. Sri Lanka Navy’s Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel SLNS Sayurala assisted a foreign yacht named “Sandetie” which had developed …
Apr 15, Teheran: Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani heading a delegation will visit Sri Lanka this week following a visit to Vietnam to discuss bilateral and international issues, particularly the Syrian situation after the recent US-led strikes. Ali Larijani and his delegation have left Teheran for Hanoi …
Sri Lanka plans to strengthen the primary health care service to relieve congestion in tertiary level hospitals, it was announced on April 15 in its capital. The Sri Lankan government indicates that there are around 970 primary level hospitals in the c…
Apr 15, Teheran: Iranian lawmakers have ratified a bill on an extradition treaty between Iran and Sri Lanka on Sunday, according to a report by Mehr News Agency. Under the terms of the bill, the extradition treaty between Iran and Sri Lanka was passed …
Venetian adventurer Marco Polo described Sri Lanka as “the finest island of its size in all the world”. Sure, that was in the 13th century and young Marco hadn’t seen Tasmania but the myriad wonders of this tropical nouveau-paradise are as varied and exotic as the scents in the spice gardens of Matale …
However, the East Africans had something to smile about at the group stage as they over powered Sri Lanka in their final pool match. Tries from Timothy Kisiga, Pius Ogena, skipper Michael Okorach, James Odong and Adrian Kasiito coupled with four conver…