New Ambassadors and High Commissioners Present Credentials to President Rajapaksa Two new ambassadors, a high commissioner and the diplomatic representative from the Vatican presented their credentials to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (04) afternoon:
Sri Lanka ranks 85th among the 132 countries on the Social Progress Index 2014, a measure of human wellbeing that goes beyond traditional economic measures such as GDP or per capita income, becoming the top performers for the region, a global index released Thursday 03rd April 2014.
Cuba has vented fury over the US government’s secretly-funded social media network program meant to instigate political unrest in the Caribbean country.
Russia has denied any links to snipers who killed people in Ukraine’s capital Kiev back in February, blaming pro-EU forces instead.
A leaked file shows evidence of British police corruption related to an unsolved murder has mysteriously disappeared from Scotland Yard.
Marking another historic land mark between close military to military relations between Pakistan and Sri Lanka the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) of Pakistan, General Rashad Mahmood will visit Sri Lanka from 7 to 11 April 2014.
Senior Congress leader and Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan asserted that his party was the only political organisation that has been working for the welfare of the Sri Lankan Tamils. Other parties have only been talking about their suffering, but have hardly done anything for their welfare, he said here on Friday.
“India considers early progress on devolution and a political settlement as being crucial to Sri Lanka to tackle mounting international pressure,” High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Y.K. Sinha, said, a week after India abstained from voting on the U.S.-backed resolution in Geneva.
Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law, Mr. K. Shanmugam, during a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s Office this evening, called on countries to engage constructively with Sri Lanka and look to the future rather than dwell on the past.
Resettled families in Keppapilavu, in the Mullaitivu District, received new houses yesterday (April 03). Secretary of the Ministry of Defense and Urban Development Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa symbolically handed over houses to 101 displaced families.
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