International Affairs

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Indonesian aviation authorities said Sunday they had located the two black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Friday he will not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, breaking a tradition that has for centuries been a hallmark of the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.

Sri Lanka is forecast to grow 3.3% in 2021, largely in line with the average for South Asia, after economic expansion contracted by 6.7% last year, the latest World Bank report has said, warning of significant risks from prolonged virus infection rates, debt distress and slow recoveries in partner economies.

The High Commission of India in Colombo and relevant authorities of the Government of Sri Lanka held a series of meetings during the last two weeks to review the status of select ongoing development cooperation projects.

සිය රට තුල කෝවිඩ් එන්නත ලබාදීමේ වැඩපිලිවෙළ ජනවාරි 13 වනදා සිට ආරම්භ කිරීමට කටයුතු යොදා ඇතැයි එරට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය පවසයි.

දේශගුණික විපර්යාසයන්ගේ බලපෑම් පිළිබඳව කටයුතු කිරීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ගත් පියවර සහ පරිසර ආරක්ෂණය කෙරෙහි ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇති කැපවීම එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහනේ ඇගැයීමට ලක්ව ඇති බව එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහනේ නේවාසික සම්බන්ධීකාරක රොබට් ජුක්හැම් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි.

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban warned Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s resolve to remain in office until the completion of his tenure was detrimental to peace talks aimed at finding a negotiated end to four decades of war in Afghanistan.

A fresh agreement will be signed with India to develop the Palali Airport in Jaffna soon,aviation and Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga told Parliament yesterday.

Sri Lanka (SL) should retain its commitment to meaningful devolution through preserving the 13th Amendment, visiting Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar said yesterday, insisting it was in SL’s interest that the expectations of the Tamil people for equality, justice, peace and dignity are fulfilled.

An official with Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency has confirmed that debris from a Sriwijaya Air passenger plane carrying 62 people was found after contact was lost shortly after takeoff from Jakarta.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Congress certified Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the November presidential election, completing its constitutional duty early Thursday after being forced to evacuate the Capitol when a mob of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump swarmed the building.

International leaders expressed shock and condemned the unprecedented scenes on Capitol Hill as a pro-Trump riot breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar has assured Sri Lankan business leaders that India would like to expand its engagement with the Sri Lankan economy and referred to certain promising areas such as pharmaceuticals, IT, vocational training, skill development, etc. in this regard.

The thousands of rioters who breached the United States Capitol building on Wednesday prompted shocked world reactions, roughly 70 arrests and four deaths as of Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Thousands of flag-waving supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump swarmed over the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, forcing lawmakers to evacuate their chambers and delaying by several hours a normally routine procedure clearing the way for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be sworn in as president and vice president on January 20.

COLOMBO - A daughter of a slain Sri Lankan journalist filed a complaint Friday with the United Nations Human Rights Committee over alleged government involvement in her father's death 12 years ago.

ඉන්දීය විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය එස්. ජයශංකර් මහතා නිල ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරය අවසන් කරමින් අද (07) කටුනායක බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන් තොටුපලෙන් පිටව ගොස් ඇත.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරස රෝගයට ප්‍රතිකාර පිණිස ඉන්දියාව නිෂ්පාදනය කරන එන්නත සෙසු රටවලට සැපයීමේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දීමට සූදානම් බව ඉන්දීය විදේශ සබඳතා ඇමති ආචාර්ය එස්. ජයිශංකර්, ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂමහතා සමග පවසා තිබෙනවා.