News Sri Lanka Northern: Talking trees and silent stupas in Sri Lanka
From northern Sri Lanka, we head towards Anuradhapura in the Central Province. We deliberately veer off course towards Dambulla, in search of Geoffrey Bawa’s spectacular architectural feat. We are ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Sri Lankan Navy arrests 4 Indian fishermen
The four men were fishing in the Northern sea area off the Kovalam Lighthouse on Wednesday ... The apprehended fishermen were handed over to a Sri Lanka Coast Guard craft and were later escorted to ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Sri Lanka- North Governor and IOM discuss bringing back Tamil refugees
(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) The Chief of International Organization of Migration for Sri Lanka and Maldives Sarat Dash called on the Governor of the Northern Province Dr. Suren Raghavan at the ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Sri Lankan Navy seizes 2.38T of beedi leaves
The ‘beedi’ leaves were stuffed in 74 bags, sources said. The arrested persons were later handed over to the police at Puththalam in northern Sri Lanka, who were remanded to custody by a local court ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Four Indian fishermen held for poaching in northern waters
At least four Indian fishermen were arrested along with a fishing trawler belonging to them for poaching in Sri Lankan ... to Northern Command. The apprehended fishers and their trawler being ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Over 600,000 people affected by drought in Sri Lanka
(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) Over 600,000 people have been affected by the drought in Sri Lanka, the Disaster Management ... in several districts. The Northern, North Central, Central and North ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Is Sri Lanka ready for 5G technology?
In this backdrop, why Sri Lanka is in such a hurry to implement 5G when they could ... When several complaints were made by the area residents, Northern Province Governor Dr. Suren Raghavan brought it ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: No Islamic State link to Sri Lanka Easter attacks, investigator says
Sri Lanka’s Easter attacks that killed 258 people were carried ... Turkey’s foreign minister says a new US proposal concerning the creation of a possible “safe zone” in northern Syria is not ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: 5 soldiers killed in accident in Sri Lanka
Colombo: A speeding train collided with an army truck in Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district on Tuesday ... crossing in between Kilinochchi and Murukkandi train stations in the Northern Province. At ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: World Refugee Day and RefugeeS in Sri Lanka
The Governors of the Southern and Northern Provinces offered to renovate facilities ... in the countries where they are seeking refuge and when they try to return to Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan politicians, ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: North Governor seeks UNDP assistance to bring back Sri Lankan refugees from India
Northern Governor Suren Raghavan has requested UNDP Country Director in Sri Lanka Joern Soerensen to assist in bringing back Sri Lankan refugees from India. The meeting took place at the Governor's ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Sri Lanka’s first ever satellite is named after the ultimate villain of Hindu mythology
Even then, Sri Lanka’s first ever satellite ... is celebrated to mark Rama’s defeat of Ravana. In many place in northern India, festivities involve the setting ablaze of giant Ravana effigies ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Highlights 970 Million Rupees for Mine Clearance
We respect Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and independence and ... and currently supports more than 650 de-mining jobs across the Northern and Eastern Provinces. ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Rapper MIA’s politically charged music earns her MBE
Her music is a melange of hip hop, Jamaican dancehall, punk and Britpop. Arulpragasam was born in Hounslow, London, but spent much of her youth in northern Sri Lanka and India. When she returned to ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: The war widows protecting Sri Lanka's mangroves
Like many other women in her village of Anphoniyarpura, and across the district of Mannar in northern Sri Lanka, 35-year-old Ushanthini relies on prawns and fishing for her primary source of income. ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Northern Sri Lanka, Muslim killed in sectarian violence: curfew extended
The victim was named Mohamed Ameer Mohamed Sally and owned a carpentry shop. Violence and aggression against mosques and Muslim businesses throughout the northwestern province. The police were ordered ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: 'There's No Fish to Catch': Global Warming Upends Traditional Livelihoods in Sri Lanka
It's the same story for those engaged in growing traditional crops, like onion farmer Sudhiran Kanapathipillai, 51, from Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka's northern province. For three consecutive ...
News Sri Lanka Northern: Sri Lanka Catholics hold first Sunday mass after Easter attacks, northern town under curfew
COLOMBO (AFP) - Thousands of Catholics attended mass in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo Sunday (May 12) amid tight security to prevent a repeat of Easter bomb attacks that killed 258 people.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
