May 08, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka tourist arrivals increased 12.6 percent in April this year against last year with the largest source market for tourists becoming India, followed by United Kingdom and China. The total number of international tourist arri…
May 07, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena says he will not retire from politics in 2020 as there is more work to be done for the country. The President made this statement at the May Day rally of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party held at Chen…
Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president announced Monday he will not retire at the end of his term despite a previous pledge, and said he will seek to form a new government excluding politicians who have committed murder. Maithripala Sirisena told a public rally in the former war zone of Batticaloa that …
ECONOMYNEXT – President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday ended all speculation about his political future saying he will not retire in 2020 when his current term ends and wants to form a government without "murderers." He quashed what he called…
A meeting with Maldives in Malaysia. Relations between India and her southern maritime neighbour – the Maldives – are undoubtedly going through a strained period. So it was quite surprising for the Indian military delegation at the Defence Services Exh…
Sri Lanka is surrounded by oceans therefore, all the weather systems which originate over Bay of Bengal, Southeast Arabian Sea and Indian ocean usually affect the island nation.
Members of the People’s Liberation Front, a Marxist political party, shout slogans during a parade held to mark May Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 7, 2018. Sri Lanka’s government had last week postponed the rallies and processions that mark May Day because the weeklong celebrations of …
Pakistani asylum seekers in Sri Lanka claim they were forced to give bribes in order to enter the country upon arrival. These asylum seekers who at Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport, said at times immigration officers asked them for bribes in order to secure entry in the country or face …
ANI | Updated: May 07, 2018 13:44 IST. Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 7 (ANI): Sri Lanka is aiming towards rapid industrialisation throughout the country under the aegis of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. While addressing an inaugural event of a new aud…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has hiked an import tax on potatoes by 10 rupees to 40 rupees a kilogram and on onions by 39 rupees to 40 rupees a kilogram in a bid to give extra profits to the farming lobby. The new so-called special commodity levy are charged with effect from May 02. Sri Lanka’s rulers …