UNP claims it has the support of all communities

Hazara miners? slaughter

Horror has revisited the beleaguered Shia Hazara community once again. Early Sunday morning, 11 coal miners, all residents of Quetta?s Hazara Town, were barbarically slain in Balochistan?s mountainous Bolan district in an attack claimed by the militant Islamic State group. The men were apparently asleep in their mudbrick dwelling close by the mine that they worked when the assailants burst in, held them at gunpoint, and bound and blindfolded them. Then, in an orgy of bestial violence, they slit

06 Jan, 2021

Sri Lanka formally requests Indian assistance to obtain Covid vaccine

Sri Lanka has formally requested Indian assistance to obtain the Covid vaccine. Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that the request was conveyed to him during his meetings in Colombo today. He said that he will be taking the request back to India to be submitted to the Indian leadership. “We are now looking at post-Covid cooperation and i carry back with me Sri Lanka’s interest in accessing vaccines from India,” he said. Speaking at a joint media briefing with Forei

06 Jan, 2021

Buddhist Sunday schools to reopen next week

All Buddhist Sunday schools (Daham Pasal), except those in isolated areas, will reopen next week. Commissioner General of Buddhist Religious Affairs Sunanda Kariyaperuma said the Sunday schools will reopen from 17 January, 2021. He said the Sunday schools will be reopened in line with the reopening of all Government schools, except those in isolated areas, from Monday (11). Buddhist Sunday schools were temporarily closed from 5 October, 2020, following the second coronavirus outbreak. (Colomb

06 Jan, 2021