The passenger ferry service between Nagapattinam in India and Kankesanthurai (KKS) near Jaffna in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, which was launched in October 2023 by the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), is scheduled to resume on 13 May, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said.
Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe’s presidential election campaign is likely to begin in June, according to 'Deshaya'.
A police constable who punched a medical worker after mistaking him for a suspect has been spared jail.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLPP founder Basil Rajapaksa had yet another round of talks at the former’s official residence at Paget Road, Colombo yesterday afternoon (04).
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa cannot deny what he told me during the telephone conversation he had with me in 2021, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said yesterday (04).
Government doctors and the police have discussed raids to nab individuals who pose as doctors.
Sri Lanka’s population declined by 144,000 in 2023 to record a negative population growth after 10 years, said Prof. Wasantha Athukorale of the University of Peradeniya.
The Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoko Kamikawa conveyed Japan’s intension to further support Sri Lanka’s development by swiftly resuming existing ‘Yen loan projects’ once the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on debt restructuring is signed and the Sri Lankan government’s intention to swiftly conclude bilateral agreement is confirmed.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has hailed the government’s decision to grant free land rights to the people as a ground-breaking step, emphasizing that no other nation has undertaken such a massive initiative to date.
The dispute over the issuance of visas at the Katunayake airport is a slap in the face of the government over its privatisation policy, said FPC MP Dullas Alahapperuma.
