Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has made it clear that he will stick to his decision to order the execution of drug traffickers in the death row who have continued to play the drug trade even while being in the death row and will appoint an expert committee of experts from various departments to choose those traffickers who ought to be executed. The first meeting in this regard will take place on Tuesday, he told a meeting in Polannaruwa on Saturday.…
The US$ 15.02 million India-funded Suwaseriya Emergency Ambulance Service was extended to the Tamil-majority and war-devastated Northern Province in Sri Lanka on Saturday with the Indian and Sri Lankan Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Ranil Wickremesinghe inaugurating it in Jaffna through video conferencing.…
Colombo, July 21 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says his government is looking at easing the air traffic system including visas for tourists in order to boost the island’s rapidly developing tourism industry, local media reported Saturday. Speaking at the ‘Hotel Show Colombo 2018’ in capital Colombo, Wickremesinghe said that easing visa […]…
Colombo, July 21 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, on Saturday attended the groundbreaking ceremony to begin the construction of a China-Sri Lanka Friendship Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa, in north central Sri Lanka, which is a gift from the Chinese government. The National Nephrology Specialist Hospital is being constructed at a cost of Rs.12 […]…
Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket star, anti-corruption crusader and politician, appears to be within reach of his cherished goal of winning the July 25 Pakistan National Assembly (NA) elections and becoming Prime Minister. However, the political history of Pakistan shows that while politicians come to power with one attractive credential or the other, they eventually end up losing power either because they turn out to be corrupt and vindictive, earning the peoples’ wrath or they lose the support of the powerful army, which has its own vested interests to safeguard, writes P.K.Balachandran in DailyFT.…
Veteran civil servant Austin Fernando, who had recently resigned from the post of Secretary to Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, has been nominated by the government as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in India.…
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said in the Lok Sabhaon Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ruled out of fear, and that fear had turned into anger now. During the debate on the no-confidence motion against the government, Mr. Gandhi said, “The Prime Minister and the BJP president are a different type of politicians. They are not like us [Congress]. We are okay with winning and losing, staying in and out of power. But they cannot afford to lose power. They fear losing power. It is this fear that is turning as anger.”…
Colombo, July 20 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lankan government has launched a five year National Export Strategy (NES) to boost foreign investments, foreign exchange earnings and employment, the Daily FT reported Friday. Addressing the launch of the five year NES strategy, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the key objective of the NES was to increase […]…
Colombo, July 20 (newsin.asia) – The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Friday. Buying Selling Australian Dollar 114.95 119.67 Canadian Dollar 118.39 122.63 Chinese Yuan (Renminbi) 22.93 24.01 Euro 182.88 189.09 Japanese Yen 1.3975 1.4479 Singapore […]…
Dr. Satoru Nagao, a Japanese expert on maritime security who is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC, says that Sri Lanka should acquire the Lockheed P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft to meet a possible threat from Chinese submarines. He said in an email interview, that Sri Lanka should be wary of China’s presence in the Hambantota harbor.…
India’s overall commitment of development assistance to Sri Lanka stands at a total of around US$ 2.9 billion, out of which US$ 545 million is pure grant assistance, the Indian High Commission said in a release.…
Sri Lanka’s Tamil leaders are pulling in different directions on crucial issues of common concern to the Tamils of the island, writes P.K.Balachandran in Daily Express…
Actor Priyanka Chopra was not the obvious choice for the Miss India title 18 years ago as one of the jury members felt her complexion was “too dark”, says a new book on the star who has turned 36. Then 17, Priyanka took part in the beauty contest from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and emerged as the runner-up -- Femina Miss India World 2000.…
Swami Agnivesh said the local administration was aware of the threat to him but took no measures to protect him. He had addressed a press conference at a small hotel in Pakur where he had supported the tribals agitating against land acquisition.…
The Central Indian government does not maintain specific data on lynching in the country, the Upper House of the Indian parliament the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. The minister’s response comes a day after the Supreme Court had asked parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching and cow vigilantism, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm.…
Hundreds of people have been killed in Bangladesh since the government launched a crackdown on drugs in May, according to a local rights group, fueling fears that the country is following the brutal lead of the Philippines,Rights groups say they are extrajudicial killings carried out by police. "It is unprecedented in Bangladesh. So many people have been killed in such a short period of time,” Sheepa Hafiza, executive director of an organization called Ain o Salish Kendra, told AFP.…
The Maldives Tourism Ministry on Wednesday has said that over 726,000 tourists had visited the island country till June this year, recording a 10.5 percent growth compared to the same period last year. A total of 93,786 tourists visited during the month of June with China, Germany, Britain, Italy and India being the top five markets. Over 127,000 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year. Over 127,000 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year, reports Xinhua.…
Colombo, July 20 (newsin.asia) – The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Friday. Buying Selling Australian Dollar 114.95 119.67 Canadian Dollar 118.39 122.63 Chinese Yuan…
The Maldives Tourism Ministry on Wednesday has said that over 726,000 tourists had visited the island country till June this year, recording a 10.5 percent growth compared to the same period last year. A total of 93,786 tourists visited during the month of June with China, Germany, Britain, Italy and India being the top five markets. Over 127,000 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year. Over 127,000 Chinese tourists have visited the Maldives so far this year, reports Xinhua.…
Colombo, July 18 (newsin.asia) – The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Buying Selling Australian Dollar 115.60 120.33 Canadian Dollar 118.92 123.19 Chinese Yuan…
Whoever lifts the Wimbledon 2018 men’s trophy would thank their stars that Pistol Pete, the cud-chewing grass juggernaut, is ruminating in a bygone era, writes Kanishkaa Balachandran in The Hindu.…
