News Sri Lanka Government: Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: The Easter Bombings and Beyond
This, in turn, will further worry the Indian government as will the possibility that IS has opened up a new front designed to target southern India. The amount of threats emerging from Sri Lanka’s ...
News Sri Lanka Government: Modern Slavery Act is having unintended consequences for women's freedom in Sri Lanka
But since it was passed by the UK government in 2015, many have pointed out its shortcomings ... companies outsource this responsibility to local factory managers in Sri Lanka. These local managers ...
News Sri Lanka Government: Draft bill stirs row in Sri Lanka, many fear it will allow foreigners to usurp land
A day after Sri Lankan Prime Minister announced the island nation is negotiating a military pact with the US, another controversial bill has stirred controversy there. The draft bill at the centre of the controversy is the State Land (Special Provision) Bill which will enable Sri Lankan citizens to sell land.
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lankan government defeats no-confidence motion
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's government on Thursday defeated a no-confidence motion in Parliament that accused it of failing to prevent Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed more than 250 people. The motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's government was defeated by a vote of 119 lawmakers against to 92 in favor. The motion, submitted by the opposition Peoples' Liberation Party, said the government should not remain in office because it failed to respond to intelligence reports ahead of the attacks by Islamic extremists on three churches and three luxury hotels. Wickremesinghe's defeat of the motion is expected to strengthen his hand in his rivalry with the country's president, Maithripala Sirisena, ahead of elections slated for this year — including a presidential election which both Sirisena and Wickremesinghe are expected to contest. The motion was debated on Wednesday and Thursday. During the debate, opposition lawmakers blamed Wickremesinghe and the government for failing to prevent the April 21 attack, despite the fact that "proper information" was available regarding the attackers. Government supporters argued it was unfair to blame the government and prime minister when the security establishment, including police, was under the control of Sirisena, who is also the country's defense minister. The attack by seven suicide bombers from a local Muslim group, National Thowheed Jammath, was the worst violence by Islamic State group-linked militants in South Asia. Sri Lankan leaders and the security establishment came under fire for not acting on near-specific intelligence information on possible attacks on churches. The government has acknowledged that some intelligence units were aware of possible attacks weeks before the bombings. . ..
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lanka- BBS calls on monks to help form Sinhalese Government
(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) today called on monks to unite to form a Sinhalese Government in the country. Speaking at a rally staged in Kandy today, General Secretary of ...
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lankan AG question why 2 officials haven't been arrested
Sri Lankan prosecutors have asked police to explain why two former senior officials have not been arrested for alleged negligence leading to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people at churches and hotels.
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lankan railway unions cave in to government’s strike ban
The Railway Trade Union Alliance (RTUA), a front of several rail unions in Sri Lanka, bowed to the government’s draconian essential services order and abandoned an earlier decision to take strike ...
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lanka in talks with China for $1 billion loan
Sri Lanka is seeking a loan of nearly US $1 billion from China for energy and highways as the island recovers from the devastating Easter Sunday bombings, the finance ministry said Thursday. Talks are underway with China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to raise the new loan in addition to the US $1.2 billion obtained from international agencies this year, the ministry said.
News Sri Lanka Government: Two Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka return to government fold following Buddhist prelate's request
COLOMBO: Two of the nine Sri Lankan Muslim ministers, who had resigned in the wake of growing anti-minority sentiments following the Easter Sunday bombings, returned to the government fold on ...
News Sri Lanka Government: PM Modi's Sri Lanka visit to show solidarity with people: Foreign secretary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make a short and packed visit to Sri Lanka on June 9, while coming back from the Maldives. During the visit, PM will meet Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Sri Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and R. Sampanthan, president of the Tamil National Alliance.
News Sri Lanka Government: PM Narendra Modi to be First Prime Minister to Visit Sri Lanka After Easter Bombings
Domestically when we look at it, it gives a message that here is the head of a government who is visiting to show solidarity.” Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Austin Fernando: PM Narendra ...
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lanka travel advice: Foreign Office declares country safe again
Fresh violence in Sri Lanka has led the Foreign Office to update its advice ... The mob activity led the Sri Lankan government to impose a country-wide curfew as well as blocking access to social ...
News Sri Lanka Government: China says security situation in Sri Lanka not back to normal
... Embassy in Sri Lanka has further amended its travel advisory for Sri Lanka to the primary level of “take safety precautions.” The embassy has said that the Sri Lankan Government has launched a ...
News Sri Lanka Government: PM Modi to visit Sri Lanka on June 9
PM Narendra Modi will visit Sri Lanka on June 9 in his first foreign visit after taking charge as the prime minister for the second consecutive term. The news was confirmed by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. During the two day visit PM Modi will be going to the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lanka reacts to UN Special Advisers' statement on sectarian violence
Rohan Perera, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the United Nations, on Sunday, criticised two UN representatives for expressing alarm over the "growing acts of violence on the basis of religion," particularly in the North Western Province of the country. In a joint statement issued on May 13, Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Karen Smith, UN Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, cited growing instances of religion-based violence and called for an end to "hateful attacks" directed towards the country`s Muslim minority.
News Sri Lanka Government: Faster help needed for displaced refugees in Sri Lanka following Easter attacks - UNHCR
Sri Lanka has long offered protection to refugees of diverse religions and nationalities, and UNHCR stands in support of the Government and people of Sri Lanka in these trying times.
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lanka orders DNA test to confirm Easter attack ringleader is dead
A Sri Lankan court on Friday authorised a DNA test to confirm that the presumed ringleader of coordinated Islamist attacks that killed over 250 people on Easter Sunday in churches and hotels did indeed blow himself up at Colombo's Shangri-La hotel. The government, which has come under fire for missing
News Sri Lanka Government: Sri Lanka probes British bride's honeymoon death
The husband of a British bride who died on her honeymoon in Sri Lanka will be kept in the country at least until a formal hearing on the death is held on Wednesday, police said. Khilan Chandaria is not under arrest or facing a charge, but has been stopped from leaving Sri Lanka since his wife Usheila Patel, 31, died on April 25.
