International Affairs

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremeshinge shakes hands with Muslim World League Secretary General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa (left) while Western Province Governor AJM Muzammil looks on

Sri Lankans joined hundreds of others in a protest outside Australia’s Parliament House today.

මැලේසියා හා ඩුබායි අයි.එස්. සංවිධානයේ ප්‍රබලයන් දෙදෙනකුට කටුනායක ගුවන්තොටුපොළෙන් මෙරටට ඇතුළු වීමට ආගමන විගමන නිලධාරීන් උදව් ලබාදී ඇති බවට බුද්ධි අංශ වෙත තොරතුරු ලැබී ඇත.

The United States today insisted it will not control any land in Sri Lanka under the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) deal with Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is known to be unhappy with the funds allocated to it by India in its latest Budget, which when compared to that allocated for other close neighbours and even Indian Ocean Region countries, is small, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.

It has been revealed that the waste containers had been sent to Ceylon Metal Processing Corporation (pvt) Ltd by a company belonging to Sasikumaran Muthuramar’s brother.

පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරය හම්බන්තොට චීන වරාය ගිවිසුමේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.

කුවේටයේ ගෘහ සේවය සඳහා ගොස් සිටියදී තම හාම්පුතුන්ගේ පහරදීම්, වැටුප් නොලැබීම් සහ විවිධ හිරිහැරවලට ලක් වූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික කාන්තාවන් 57 දෙනෙකු අද (29) දින උදෑසන කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපළ වෙත එවා තිබුණා.

The daughter of the former UNP General Secretary and former Health Minister Tissa Attanayake, Dulmini Attanayake has been appointed as the Third Secretary to the Australian High Commission, it is reported.

The third edition of India International Textiles Expo (IITExpo) Colombo 2019, organized by Powerloom Development and Export Promotion Council (PDEXCIL), Mumbai India will conclude today (31) at Hotel Galadari, Colombo yesterday.

Finance Ministry has not given its consent for the proposal by Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana to appoint Dulmini Attanayake, the daughter of former General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) as the Third Secretary in the Sri Lankan Embassy in Australia.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife Maitree Wickremesinghe performed ‘Nava Chandi Homa’ and offered special prayers to Goddess Sri Mookambika at Kollur in India yesterday (Friday), the Deccan Herald reported.

A top UN official yesterday urged Sri Lanka to step up promotion and advocacy post-Easter Sunday setback, saying it was everyone’s responsibility to tell the world it was a safe, environmentally-conscious, fantastic and gorgeous island that is a must-visit destination.

The people of Sri Lanka must act together to secure democracy, human rights and the rule of law, says UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule.

Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Atul Keshap has been appointed as a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

ඉන්දියාවේ ජාතික බුද්ධි කාර්යාංශය විසින් මෙහෙයවන පළමු විදේශීය පරීක්ෂණය බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ පරීක්ෂණ පත්වනු ඇති බව ඉන්දීය වාර්තා සඳහන් කරයි.

The Easter Sunday bombings case in Sri Lanka is likely to be the first case for the NIA to probe after Parliament amended an Act empowering it to investigate terror cases abroad, officials said on Sunday, the Times of India reported.