International Affairs

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.

Another controversial waste recycling deal involving the importation of used mattresses between a French company and an unidentified local firm has come light following the leak of e mail communication with relevant parties recently.

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.

British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Ambassador to the Maldives James Dauris is the guest on Milinda Moragoda’s popular English TV talk show ‘In Black & White’ which will be telecast tomorrow, 28 July, at 8:30 p.m. on TV One.

යුරෝපා සංගමයේ රටවල් ඇතුළු තවත් රටවල් 24ක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණෙන සංචාරකයන් සඳහා 'පැමිණීමේදී ලබාදෙන සංචාරක වීසා' (On Arrival Visa) නිකුත් කිරීමට කැබිනට් අනුමැති හිමිව තිබේ.

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.

Investigations into the importation of 130 containers of used mattresses takes a new twist with the owner of Ceylon Metal Processing Corporation (pvt) Ltd Sasikumaran Muthurama has taken over the responsibility of garbage imports from UK.

Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana today rejected concerns raised over the visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on the freedom of assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voulé.

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.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said that as Sri Lanka and Japan are both interested in maritime security, they should further increase cooperation between the two navies to ensure international maritime security as well as safety and security in international waters.

ලොව ප්‍රධානතම වහාබ්වාදයේ ප්‍රවර්ධකයන් වන “මුස්ලිම් ලෝක ලීගය” (MWL) ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍ය නායකයන්ට හා ආගමික නායකයන්ට සාමය උගැන්වීමට මෙම විශේෂ “මහා සමුළුව” සංවිධානය කර තිබේ. එය මේ මස (ජූලි 30දා) කොළඹ නෙළුම් පොකුණ රඟහළේ දී රඟ දැක්වීමට මේ වනවිටත් සියලු කටයුතු සූදානම් කර අවසන් ය.

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.

Two Singaporeans, including a suspect who funded Zahran Hashim, the alleged mastermind and one of the suicide bombers in the Easter terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, has been arrested in Singapore.

The British Government has launched an investigation after Sri Lankan authorities said they would send back more than a hundred shipping containers because they appeared to contain human remains disguised as recyclable metals, the Telegraph reported yesterday.

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

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Clément Nyaletsossi Voulé paid a courtesy call on Northern Province Governor Dr. Suren Raghavan on 24 July in Colombo.

President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have congratulated the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson who took office after winning the ruling Conservative Party’s leadership contest yesterday.