COLOMBO, April 30 (Xinhua) — The number of people affected by drought in Sri Lanka has increased to 613,326, the Sri Lankan Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said in its situation report on Monday. According to the report, people in 11 administrative d…
This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. NEW YORK, Apr 30 2018 (IPS) – When Sri Lankan journalist Richard de Zoysa was abducted from his home in Colombo on the night of …
Dhaka, April 30 (UNB) – A 10-member Bangladesh Junior Athletics team will leave here for Sri Lanka on Thursday (May 3) to participate in the 3rd South Asian Junior (Under-18) Athletics Championship beginning in Colombo on May 5. Bangladesh team consists of eight athletes including five women’s, …
Apr 30, Colombo: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic will visit India, Nepal and Sri Lanka from 2 to 8 May, a Serbian government statement said. During his visit, Dacic will meet with the top officials of the three So…
First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic would visit India, Nepal and Sri Lanka from May 2 to 8, the B92 News station reported on Monday. The Serbian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement that PM Dacic would be meeting…
TRINCOMOLEE, Sri Lanka (April 28, 2018) Chief Musician Andrew Conover (left), native of Richmond, Va., assigned to U.S. Pacific Fleet Band plays with the Sri Lanka Navy Band during a performance for local Sri Lankan’s at Mattur public grounds as a part of a community relations event for Pacific …
TRINCOMOLEE, Sri Lanka (April 27, 2018) Chief Naval Air crewman (helicopter) Jesse Peterson (right), and Naval Air crewman (helicopter) 3rd Class Daniel Lewis (left), assigned to the “Wildcards” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23, demonstrate r…
TRINCOMOLEE, Sri Lanka (April 28, 2018) Sailors assigned to Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) dance with students from T/mu/Paddithidal Maha Vidyalayam School during a U.S. Pacific Fleet Band performance in support of Pacific Partnership 2018 (PP18). PP18’s mission …
The third gazette has been changed to read "Know Ye that by virtue of the powers vested in me by Article 70 of the Chapter XI of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, I Maithripala Sirisena, President do by this Procl…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s former minister of finance minister Ravi Karunanayake who fell from grace after being implicated in the bond scam, … Sirisena had maintained that it was against Sri Lankan culture to allow women to buy or sell liquor and wanted the archaic law kept in statute books …