International Affairs

Afghanistan reiterated calls for direct flights to Sri Lanka and also proposed signing a bilateral tourism cooperation MOU.

Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, are set to debate Tuesday night, five weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 election, in the first of three planned face-to-face encounters over the next month.

India and Sri Lanka have stepped up Intelligence cooperation on the high seas ever since President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came to power, the Economic Times reported.

Nearly three decades, 850 witnesses, more than 7,000 documents, photographs and videotapes later, a court in India found no-one guilty of razing a 16th-Century mosque which was attacked by Hindu mobs in the holy city of Ayodhya.

The number of people killed by COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, which put the total number of infections worldwide at more than 33 million.

Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Sultanate of Oman O. L. Ameer Ajwad paid a courtesy call on, the new Minister for Economy of the Sultanate of Oman Dr. Said Al Saqri .

NEW YORK - The U.N. secretary-general appealed to the international community Wednesday for $35 billion to rapidly fund equitable global access to COVID-19 tests, therapeutics, and when available, vaccines, as deaths from the coronavirus surpass 1 million.

පළාත් සභා රටට අනවශ්‍ය බවට ප්‍රබල හඬක් නැගූ පළාත් සභා විෂය භාර රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉන්දීය මහා කොමසාරිස්වරයා වන ගෝපාල් භාග්ලේ මහතා මුණගැසී ඇති බව දැනගන්නට තිබේ.

MUMBAI (Reuters): Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa sought an additional currency swap facility and deferment of debt payments from India during an online bilateral summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, Indian officials said.

UN Secretary General António Guterres has raised concerns on Sri Lanka, in a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.

ඉවතලන අපද්‍රව්‍ය සඳහා වානිජමය අගයක් ලබාදෙමින්, අපද්‍රව්‍ය යොදාගනිමින් විදුලිය නිපදවිම තුළින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට සුවිශාල දායකත්වයක් ලබාදිය හැකි බැවින් ඒ වෙනුවෙන් තම රටේ සහාය ලබාදිය හැකි බවත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉතාලි තානාපතිනි එච්.ඊ. රීටා මැනෙල්ලා මහත්මිය අවධාරණය කරයි.

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center has reported large jumps in new COVID-19 cases in India and the U.S.

අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා සහ පාකිස්තානයේ මහ කොමසාරිස් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් (විශ්‍රාමික) මුහම්මද් සාද් ඛට්ටක්(Muhammad Saad Khattak) මහතා අතර පසුගිය දා විශේෂ හමුවක් පැවැත්විණි.

Nearly four years after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump first faced questions about his income tax returns, the issue has returned to the forefront of the 2020 election as Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden prepare for their first debate Tuesday night.

චීන පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයක් සිදුකළ සමීක්ෂණයකට අනුව කොවිඩ් – 19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය පාලනයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලොව දෙවැනි ස්ථානයට පත්ව තිබේ.

Sri Lanka will continue to enjoy the GSP+ facility or tariff free access to the markets of the European Union member-states if it remains a lower middle income country and adheres to international conventions, EU Ambassador Danis Chaibi told when interviewed by Daily Mirror.

The World Health organization says 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for the coronavirus will be made available to low- and middle-income countries as the world approaches a death toll of 1 million.

Indian Deputy High Commissioner Vinod K Jacob positively assessed the strong engagement between India and Sri Lanka during the past year including in the context of mutual support in dealing with Covid related challenges.