News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lanka thanks India for development partnership assistance
Minister of Megapolis and Western Development, Patali Champika Ranawaka, Minister of Power, Energy & Business Development of Sri Lanka, Ravi Karunanayake, High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lanka- Navy detains Indians with 2379kg of beedi leaves
(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) The Navy intercepted a fishing dhow carrying six Indian nationals with 2379kg of beedi leaves, in the North Western seas of Sri Lanka, the Navy media unit said today. ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lanka reconsecrates St Sebastian's Church damaged in Easter Terror blasts
COLOMBO: The St Sebastian's Church in Sri Lanka's western coastal town of Negombo was reconsecrated on Sunday, three months after it was badly damaged in the Easter Sunday blasts that rocked the ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lanka signs agreement with India to upgrade railway lines
Sri Lanka has signed an agreement with India to upgrade tracks ... This is the first time in 100 years that the 130 km-long-tracks, running from Maho town in the North Western Province to Omanthai in ...
News Sri Lanka Western: China seeks Sri Lanka's support as allegations mount on Xinjiang issue
The Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Cheng Xueyuan said that he was surprised to notice that some politicians and media in western countries continuously attack China's policy in Xinjiang ...
News Sri Lanka Western: 8 killed due to monsoon-related incidents in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is witnessing inclement weather since Thursday and is likely to witness continuous rain for a few days in the central, western and southwestern regions. Till Saturday eight people have ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Countering violent extremism in Sri Lanka: A primer
Sri Lanka experienced an Utopian moment of a decade of peace and openness that even many Western societies were envious of since the end of the war on LTTE terrorism in 2009. The high point of this ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Western Australia earthquake: No tsunami threat to Sri Lanka
There was no tsunami threat to Sri Lanka at present from the 6.5 magnitude earthquake that had hit off the West Australian Coast, the National Tsunami Early Warning Centre of the Meteorology ...
News Sri Lanka Western: What the Western Media Gets Wrong About Sri Lanka Tourism
The Western media, from The New York Times to The Washington Post to The Seattle Times and the Toronto City News, picked up an Associated Press article that jumped on a big figure — a 57 percent drop in international arrivals to Sri Lanka in June, compared with June 2018. The story suggests it was […
News Sri Lanka Western: Behrendorff makes Cup debut against Sri Lanka
It was a swap of Western Australian quicks with Behrendorff replacing Nathan ... Finch ponders best approach for Sri Lanka "We've had a few good games against SL in the past and we know they've got a ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lanka govt defies President Sirisena to resume parliamentary probe into Easter blasts
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday began the Parliamentary ... The committee summoned former governor of the Western province Azath Sally to testify before it. The cabinet meeting which is ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Easter bombers on Sri Lanka payroll: Former governor
COLOMBO: The extremists behind Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings received funding from state intelligence services, a former governor told a parliamentary investigation. The comments by Azath Salley, ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Easter bombers on Sri Lanka payroll: Muslim leader
The extremists behind Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings received funding from state intelligence services, a top Muslim leader told a parliamentary investigation. The comments by Azath Salley, who ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lankan arrested with Indian passport
The accused, Sasikumar Markkandu, native of Western Province in Sri Lanka, had come to Chennai in 2012 and stayed in Madurai since then, working as a videographer. He moved to Bengaluru in April 2019 ...
News Sri Lanka Western: ‘IS in Lanka not linked to Pakistan but India’, says global terror expert
Professor of Security Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang University and global terror expert of Sri Lankan origin, Dr Rohan Gunaratna said the influence of the Tamil Nadu Tawheed Jamaath in India has been very damaging to Sri Lanka.
News Sri Lanka Western: Panel Probing Easter Attacks Submits Final Report To Sri Lanka President
Sri Lanka Supreme Court Justice Vijith Malalgoda ... St Sebastian's Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and another church in the eastern town of Batticaloa, and three high-end hotels ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Protests by Buddhist monks force two Muslim governors to resign in Sri Lanka
Two Muslim governors in Sri Lanka resigned Monday after thousands of people ... supporting Islamist extremists responsible for the Easter suicide bombings. Western Province Governor Azath Salley and ...
News Sri Lanka Western: Sri Lanka- Muzammil sworn in as Western Province Governor
J. M. Muzammil was sworn in as the new Governor of the Western Province today. He took oaths before President Maithripala Sirisena. ...
