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March 17 (newsin.asia) - Sri Lanka has halted passenger arrivals from all countries at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake starting from today (17 March). Minister Wimal Weerawansa tweeted “President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has officially decided to stop all arrival passenger flights into Sri Lanka”. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given the respective instructions when the Task Force to Combat COVID-19 met...

Indians consume about 9.8 gigabyte of data per month on their smartphones, the highest in the world, according to Swedish telecoms gearmaker Ericsson.

December 25 (BBC) - From Australia to the Americas, services marking one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar have been taking place. Here are some of the best images from around the world. Colombo, Sri Lanka Pic - EPA Sri Lankan Catholic children dressed up as angels at St Anthony's Church. On Easter Sunday,...

December 7 (EconomyNext) – Caroline Jurie from Sri Lanka has been crowned Mrs. World at a pageant held in Las Vegas USA on December 06, more than three decades after Rosy Senanayake won a similar title. The first runner up was from Ireland and the Second Runner up was from the US Virgin Islands. She beat contestants from 51 countries....

Faiz Ahmad Faiz's poem translated by Vineet Kapoor Dean (Chitkara University).

November 21 (newsin.asia) - Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo a short while ago. Rajapaksa was sworn in as Prime Minister after Ranil Wickremesinghe resigned from the post on Wednesday. Wickremesinghe sent in his official resignation letter on Thursday morning which...

November 17 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka's president-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa told newsin.asia a short while ago while leaving the elections commission in Colombo that he was extremely happy for winning the presidential poll on Saturday. "I will now begin to work for my people, all the citizens of Sri Lanka, and I thank all of them". He said that he will work...

November 17 (newsin.asia) - The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on Sunday claimed that presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa has won the presidential election by winning 53% of the total votes. In a statement, MP Dullas Alahapperuma said although the final official results were yet to be released they had sufficient information that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had won the polls. Dullas urged...

COLOMBO, Oct. 22 (newsin.asia) - Thirty foreign election monitors from the European Union Election Observation Mission were deployed in all nine provinces of Sri Lanka on Tuesday to begin monitoring the election process, just weeks ahead of the island's Presidential polls. The team, which arrived in Sri Lanka on Oct 11, left the for the provinces on Tuesday morning after...

October 16 (Daily Mirror) - No international actor will try to interfere in Sri Lanka’s approaching presidential election said Basil Rajapaksa, chief strategist of his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidential bid. “Ethically, that is how it should be,” he told The Hindu in an interview, alluding to a shift in the international community’s “role” in Sri Lanka’s national politics. His comments,...