Sarah Whyte A Sri Lankan asylum seeker on a bridging visa is fighting for his life after dousing himself in petrol following a decision by the Australian immigration department to deport him back to Sri Lanka.
The Foreign Employment Promotion Ministry has initiated inquiries into complaints that organs of dead Sri Lankan expatriate workers in some Middle Eastern countries had been removed, Minister Dilan Perera said yesterday.
State institutions and private companies are now permitted to obtain the services of foreign professionals, technical experts and skilled labour not available in the country, following the approval of the BOI that will issue a work permit for a specific time period, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.
The High Commission of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Sri Lanka invites applications for award of Jinnah Scholarship from deserving Sri Lankan students pursuing their studies at O’ Levels and A Levels.
A high powered delegation of Pakistan’s Gilgit – Baltistan Legislative Assembly members and officials led by Speaker Mr Wazir Baig, recently visited Sri Lanka on an exposure visit to study the Gems and Jewellery sector policy framework.
The west has been needlessly whipping up tension – if we don’t co-operate soon, chaos may take hold Sergei Lavrov The profound and pervasive crisis in Ukraine is a matter of grave concern for Russia. We understand perfectly well the position of a country which became independent just over 20 years ago and still faces Read More
පසුගිය වසරේ ආර්ථික වර්ධන වේගය 7.3%ක් බවත් 2013 අය-වැයෙන් සියලු ආර්ථික ඉලක්ක සාක්ෂාත් කර ගෙන ඇති අතර මධ්‍යම ශ්‍රේණියේ ආර්ථික වේගයක් මේ රටේ ඇති කරන්න කටයුතු කරන බවත් අද හොඳම වෙළෙඳනාමය බවට ශ්රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් පත්ව ඇති බවත් මුදල් හා ක්‍රමසම්පාදන නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය සරත් අමුණුගම මහතා පවසයි.
Meera Srinivasan Sri Lanka will not participate in any investigation carried out by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris said here on Monday.
The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was set to switch to the ocean floor today using a robot submersible after suspected black box signals were detected, one month to the day since the jet vanished.
ශ්රී ලංකාව පීඩාවට පත් කළ දශක තුනකට ආසන්න යුද්ධය අවසන් කිරීම “ජාතියේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ ජයග‍්‍රහණයක්” බව පාකිස්ථාන ආරක්‍ෂක හමුදා කාර්යමණ්ඩල ප‍්‍රධානීන්ගේ කමිටුවේ සභාපති ජෙනරල් රෂාද් මහමුද් (Gen. Rashad Mahmood) මහතා කියා සිටී.
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