Kuliyapitiya school security guard arrested with heroin

Korean Foreign Minister to visit Sri Lanka this week

Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will travel to Vietnam and Sri Lanka this week to discuss economic cooperation and joint policies in dealing with a wayward North Korea, his ministry said Monday. Yun will fly to Sri Lanka on Tuesday for a three-day visit marking the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the countries. The foreign minister will then come back home to attend to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s two-day Seoul visit slated from Friday, before heading to Vietnam o

13 Mar, 2017

Police fire tear-gas on anti-SAITM protest

The police fired tear-gas on an anti-SAITM protest staged in Fort today. The protest was staged by the Inter University Student’s Federation (IUSF). The police used tear-gas and water cannons as the protesters attempted to forcibly enter the Presidential Secretariat. As series of protests have been staged against the?SAITM Malabe campus over the past few weeks. (Colombo Gazette)

13 Mar, 2017

WFP says 900,000 face hunger in Sri Lanka

The worst drought in five years has pushed 900,000 people in Sri Lanka into acute food insecurity, the World Food Program (WFP) says, according to the?Reuters news agency. An unpublished survey conducted by government agencies and relief organizations in February found that both food insecurity and debt were rising sharply among families hit by drought, the WFP office in Sri Lanka confirmed to Reuters. The country’s rice harvest could be the worst in 40 years, charity Save the Children predict

14 Mar, 2017