Sri Lanka
Gotabaya Rajapaksa dubs court cases filed in US as politically motivated
It is also stated that no government in Sri Lanka can take away his Sri Lankan citizenship. He is a dual citizen and if he renounces one he retains the other automatically.
Successive Sri Lankan Presidents have sought extension of term
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, April 12 (Daily Express): Earlier this week, the General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Dayasiri Jayasekara, told the media that the chairman of his party and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, intends to seek the opinion of the Supreme Court on the plea that his term of office should be deemed to have begun...
Video story on Sri Lanka’s first new railway line after independence in 1948
The 26.75 km Matara-Beliatta train has a design speed of 120 km/h. The project, started in 2013, was executed by the China National Machinery Import & Export (Group) Co., Ltd., with the Export-Import Bank of China providing a loan.
Sri Lanka’s marine protection agency calls for tougher laws against ocean pollution
Colombo, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority on Thursday urged countries along the Bay of Bengal to draft stronger laws against polluting the oceans due to the formation of a dead zone in the center of the Bay of Bengal. General Manager of the Marine Environment Protection Authority, Dr. P.B. Teney told Xinhua that authorities had...
Severe dry weather affects over 500,000 in Sri Lanka
Colombo, April 11 (newsin.asia) -- Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC), on Thursday said the number of people affected by the prevailing severe dry weather across the island country had risen to 500,000. In a statement, the DMC said that as of Thursday noon, 529,420 people belonging to 136,329 families had been affected by the dry weather and drought and...
Video story on Sino-Lankan Colombo International Container Terminal
CICT’s performance helped the Colombo port increase its total throughput by 14 percent in 2018, a noteworthy accomplishment in the region.
A Lankan Muslim community struggles to get back its lands from the navy
Lands should be given back to their rightful owners, regardless of ethnicity or religion as the development of the lives of people ultimately strengthens the government and the country.
Murdered Lankan editor’s daughter files case against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in US court
Colombo, April 8 (Daily Mirror/newsin.asia) Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of slain journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, has filed a case in the California Court against former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in connection with the assassination of her father in January 2009. She had reportedly stated that Mr. Rajapaksa, who is currently holidaying in California, should be held responsible for the murder of...
Sri Lanka opens China funded southern railway line
Colombo, April 8 (newsin.asia) -- The Sri Lankan government, on Monday, declared open a railway line constructed between Matara and Beliatta in the south of the island country which will boost passenger traffic into the deep south. The 26.75 km long Matara-Beliatta railway extension was declared open for the public by Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Arjuna Ranatunga in the presence...
Over 240,000 tourists arrive in Sri Lanka in March
Colombo, April 8 (newsin.asia) - Over 240,000 tourists arrived in Sri Lanka in March, growing 4.6 percent compared to the same period last year, statistics from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority showed here Monday. India, United Kingdom, China, Germany and France were Sri Lanka’s top five international tourist generating markets in the month of March this year. India was the...
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