Navy, police bust major heroin smuggling operation

Gazette issued bringing Lotteries Board back under Finance Ministry

A Special Gazette notice has been issued bringing the National Lotteries Board back under the Finance Ministry. The National Lotteries Board was initially under the Finance Ministry but former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake had wanted the?National Lotteries Board under the Foreign Ministry when he was appointed Foreign Minister. However following?Karunanayake’s resignation from his Ministerial post recently, a decision has been taken to revert the?National Lotteries Board to the Finance Mi

18 Aug, 2017

Solheim says cannot understand why Tamils loved Prabhakaran

Former Norwegian peace mediator?Erik Solheim says he cannot understand how LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran got an enormous standing among Tamils and how he could be seen as their god, creator, and saviour at the time. Solheim told?WION he regrets that the he could not spend more time with Prabhakaran to influence him. “I met him more often than any other foreigner did in the world because basically he just met Tamils, only once met a Muslim delegation in Sri Lanka, met with a few Sinhalese

18 Aug, 2017

Norwegian vessel to survey marine resources in Sri Lanka

The Norwegian Research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen is to visit Sri Lankan waters in 2018 to carry out a survey on the marine resources. This is part of the technical and institutional cooperation on Fisheries between Norway and Sri Lanka, which was endorsed by the top level political authorities of the two countries, the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo said today. The aim of the planned survey is to know the current status of marine resources including fish stocks and to investigate stocks of unexpl

18 Aug, 2017