Fire in building along Duplication Road in Bambalapitiya

Pre-schools, day care centers allowed to resume from July

Pre-schools and day care centers will be allowed to resume operations from July. The Government said that pre-schools and day care centers can resume from 1st July by adhering to the health guidelines issued to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (Colombo Gazette)

16 Jun, 2020

Pakistan says Sri Lanka not safe from India’s nefarious and hegemonic designs

Pakistan says Sri Lanka is not safe from India’s nefarious and hegemonic designs. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that India becoming the non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was ‘not a moment of rejoice, but concern’ as the country blatantly rejected resolutions of the prestigious forum, particularly on Kashmir. The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) quoted the Foreign Minister as saying a majority of India’s neighbouring countries including Pakistan,

16 Jun, 2020

Final decision on MCC deal with Sri Lanka after polls

By Easwaran Rutnam?? A decision on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement will be taken after the Parliamentary election in August, the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina B. Teplitz said. In an online discussion with a group of journalists, the Ambassador said that the US respects President Gotabaya Rajapaksa?s decision to review the grant proposal. She said that the agreement remained stalled following the Constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka in 2018 and with the Government now in

15 Jun, 2020