International Affairs

India supports the call of international community for the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its commitments on devolution of political authority including through early holding of elections to provincial councils, according to S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister.

හමුදාපති ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වාට මැග්නිට්ස් සම්බාධක පනත යටතේ සම්බාධක සහ තහංචි පනවන ලෙස ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ ඉහළ පෙළේ නිලධාරිනියක් වන යස්මින් සුකා බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත.

The United States has offered Sri Lanka support to manage its debt and find a more sustainable path forward.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will attend the opening ceremony of the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2021 via video link today.

The number of people who have died worldwide in the Covid-19 pandemic has surpassed three million, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Singapore Airlines has announced it will increase flight frequency to Sri Lanka from three times to five times weekly from 1 May, operating the Airbus 350-900MH aircraft.

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Ahead of this week’s White House Leaders Summit on Climate, the United States is reaffirming fighting climate change as a top foreign policy priority, as it hopes to drive a green energy revolution. 

U.S. President Joe Biden says he and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are committed to working together to counter challenges from China and North Korea, following Biden's first White House summit since taking office.

NEW DELHI (AFP): India’s daily coronavirus caseload has doubled in 10 days, with a record 200,000 new infections logged on Thursday as authorities grapple with shortages of vaccines, treatments and hospital beds.

India's health ministry Monday announced a record 273,810 new COVID cases in the previous 24-hour period while officials in the capital, New Delhi, announced a weeklong lockdown.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Friday announced that the country would begin easing some of its stricter COVID-19 restrictions April 26.

Blinken sought to reassure Afghan officials that the U.S. would still be committed to the country where U.S. troops have been stationed since 2001, following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 of that year.

ISLAMABAD - Clashes between a recently banned Islamist party and police in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, reportedly left at least two people dead and scores of others wounded Sunday.

A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has submitted a 50-page dossier on Army Commander General Shavendra Silva to the Sanctions Department of the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to China, Dr. Palitha Kohona, presented his credentials to Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday (Wednesday).

NEW DELHI - For a second time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, rural migrants in India are packing buses and trains to head back to their villages as cities such as Delhi and Mumbai reimpose restrictions to control an unprecedented surge in infections.

Sri Lanka is yet to set a date as to when it will begin the second round of COVID-19 vaccinations as India is yet to confirm if it can cater to the Sri Lankan Government's urgent request to export one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Daily Mirror learns.

Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine remained in limbo on Wednesday as a U.S. health panel called for more data before deciding how and whether to resume use of the one-dose shot, putting off a vote for a week or more.