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First India-funded model village handed over to Lankan beneficiaries
India is to help build 100 model villages consisting of a total of 2400 houses all across Sri Lanka with a grant of SLR. 1200 million.
Indian budget 2019 aimed at upcoming State elections
Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman's speech was in generalities. The devil could be in the details given in government notifications and the difference could be in the implementation.
Former Sri Lankan President’s son, Yoshitha Rajapaksa to be engaged this month
Colombo, July 4 (newsin.asia) - January started off with an elegant start for the Rajapaksa family when the youngest son of Mahinda Rajapaksa, Rohitha Rajapaksa wedded his long time girlfriend, Tatyana Lee Jayaratne. Rohitha, although the youngest among the Rajapaksa sons, was the first to settle, raising many a suspicion as to when his elder two brothers would also take...
Sri Lanka says majority of injured in Easter attacks have recovered
Colombo, July 4 (Xinhua) - Sri Lanka's Health Ministry on Thursday said a majority of those injured in the Easter Sunday terror explosions have been discharged from hospital. Director General of Health Services of the Health Ministry, Dr. Anil Jasinghe told Xinhua that over 400 people had been injured in the nine suicide attacks on April 21 and to date...
SOFA and sovereignty: Why US-Lankan pacts are cause for concern
Sovereignty and other concerns are blocking US attempts to get Sri Lanka to accept the Status of Forces Agreement, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation scheme in toto.
Sri Lanka’s former defense secretary, police chief arrested, to face charges to prevent Easter attacks
Colombo, July 2 (newsin.asia) - A team of Sri Lankan criminal police have arrested former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fenando and former Inspector General of Police, Pujith Jayasundara, following instructions made by the Attorney General to charge them over 'grave crimes against humanity' over their negligence to prevent the Easter Sunday terror attacks. Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said the two officials...
‘Charge Sri Lanka police chief with crimes against humanity’
Colombo, July 2 (Al Jazeera) - Sri Lanka's police chief and a top defence official should be charged with "grave crimes against humanity" for failing to prevent the attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed more than 250 people in April, the country's attorney general has said. The bombings, claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS),...
Controversies over national symbols in South Asia
These symbols of unity are often subjects of debate and differences and, occasionally, of litigation and boycott.
Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka’s two-pronged counter-terror strategy
One of the two prongs is the destruction of the matirx which breeds terrorism and the other is the establishment of a universal convention against killing innocents.
Sri Lanka president rebuffs UN chief over hangings
Colombo, July 1 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president said Monday he had rejected a telephone appeal by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to reconsider his push to reintroduce the death penalty after 43 years. "I told the Secretary General that I want to save my country from drugs," Maithripala Sirisena told a meeting in Colombo to mark his anti-narcotics drive....
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