Child among three killed in Sri Lanka train accident

Foreigners who deposit over US$ 300,000 to get 10 year visa

Foreign individual who remit US$ 300,000 will be granted 10 years residency visa in Sri Lanka, the Government announced today. The Government said that it had been proposed in the 2016 budget to grant residency visa to foreign individuals who bring a large amount of foreign exchange into the country. A?proposal made by Finance minister Ravi Karunanayake to direct the legal draftsman to draft the proposed special deposit account Act, was approved by the cabinet of Ministers, the Government said

10 Aug, 2016

President wants new fighter aircraft for the Air Force

  President Maithripala Sirisena has sought and obtained cabinet approval to purchase new?fighter aircraft for the Sri Lanka Air Force. The Government said that the fighter aircraft of the Sri Lanka Air Force have been aging and need to be replaced to meet the?oceanic security and to be prepared for any unexpected threat. Sirisena, in his capacity as the Minister of Defense, obtained cabinet approval to obtain expressions of interest from interested aircraft manufacturers, assistant manufactu

10 Aug, 2016

Czech authorities jail Lankan man for abusing passport

A Sri Lankan man who allegedly?experienced torture at home and?arrived in Prague late last year to seek asylum has?ended in a Czech prison, sentenced for abusing another person’s passport, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) reported. The 28-year-old man was arrested by the Czech police and?was convicted and is in the Prague-Pankrac prison, HN writes. “He was punished for having arrived using a passport of another man, an Indian. He also used a forged Schengen entry stamp. However, from the begi

09 Aug, 2016