International Affairs

The 73rd Independence Day of India was celebrated by the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka at the India House, Colombo with High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu as the Chief Guest. The Indian community participated at the event.

Pakistan High Commissioner Maj. Gen. (R) Dr. Shahid Ahmad Hashmat has called on Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to apprise him about the grave situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency (Pvt) Company has failed to develop foreign relationships with the view of promoting foreign employment, recent government audit query claimed.

Robert Juhkam presented his credentials on 15 August 2019 to Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana, officially taking office as the new Resident Representative for UNDP in Sri Lanka.

Brussels: The European Commission, through its Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, has allocated € 8.5 million (over Rs. 1.65 billion) to support Sri Lanka’s efforts to prevent violent extremism, build community resilience, and promote peace and tolerance.

Sri Lanka and India are to enter into a Private Public Partnership (PPP) to further develop the Sooriyawewa Cricket Stadium where the construction work has caused the sate heavily. , informed government sources said.

An agreement was signed between the government and Bellegeo Enterprises Limited yesterday to conduct an airborne gravity, gravity gradiometry and magnetic data survey to support Sri Lanka’s oil and gas exploration. This is the first time such an agreement was signed here.

In a major breakthrough, the Korean Chaebol Lotte Group has transferred ‘www.ceylontea.com’ domain name to the Sri Lanka Tea Board with immediate effect.

ජාතික තව්හිද් ජමාත් සංවිධානයට සම්බන්ධ බව කියන ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් දෙදෙනකු මැනිලා ගුවන්තොටුපළින් පිලිපීනයට ඇතුළුවීමේ සිද්ධියක් ගැන පරීක්‍ෂණ කරන බව හමුදා ප‍්‍රකාශක බි‍්‍රගේඩියර් එඞ්හාද් අරිවාලෝ ප‍්‍රකාශ කර ඇත.

Us Ambassador for Sri Lanka and Maldives Alaina B. Teplitz yesterday said at the 27 Annual General Meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka that US is supporting Sri Lanka for fast recovery of its tourism industry from the Easter attacks.

ගෝලීය මෝටර් රථ ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ දැවැන්තයකු වන ෆෝර්ඩ් මෝටර් සමාගම, පසුගිය දා Ford Ranger Raptor මාදිලියේ 2018/ 2019 සංස්කරණය මෙරටට හඳුන්වා දුන්නේය. සොෆ්ට්ලොජික් හෝල්ඩින්ග්ස් සමාගමේ අනුබද්ධිත සමාගමක් වන Future Automobiles සමාගම ෆෝර්ඩ් මෝටර් සමාගම මෙරට නියෝජනය කරයි.

European Union Delegation Comprising Riccardo Chelleri and Anne Vaugier Chatterjee and meeting Leader of the TNA R Sampanthan on 12 Aug/ EU handout

ඉන්දියාවේ සිටින සිය ඥාතින් පිරිසක් දැක බලා ගැනීම සඳහා ගිය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික තරුණයෙකු අතුරුහන්වී ඇති බව ඔහුගේ මව විසින් සිදුකරනු ලැබූ පැමිණිල්ලක් මත එරට පොලිසිය විමර්ශනයක් ආරම්භ කර තිබෙනවා.

Russia and Sri Lanka had talks today on pressing issues in the global arena.

An S-14 train power-set has been imported from China at a cost of Rs 1.8 billion today (Aug 13), the Transport Ministry said in a press release.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and First Lady Fazna Ahmed are in Sri Lanka on a four-day unofficial visit.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Ahmed Shaheed is due to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow to carry out an official visit.

බෝම්බයක් ඇති බවට ලද තොරතුරක් මත ඉන්දියාවේ දිල්ලි නුවර පිහිටි ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන් තොටුපොලේ කටයුතු පැයකට අධික කාලයකට නතර කිරීමට සිදුව තිබෙනවා.