Parliament defeats Delimitation Report on Provincial Councils

Compensation paid to families of migrant workers

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera together with Thalatha Athukorala, Minister of Foreign Employment and Dr. Harsha De Silva, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs handed over compensation and salary dues to family members of deceased and injured migrant workers. Thirty Nine family members received Seventy Two million Sri Lankan rupees from the Minister at the ceremony. This was the fifth compensation awarding ceremony organized by the Ministry this year. While conveying his profound

20 Dec, 2016

Police told to investigate claims President will die soon

The police has been asked to investigate claims made by an astrologer that President Maithripala Sirisena will die before January 26 next year. Media Ministry Secretary Nimal Bopage said that the claims on the President was being circulated on social media. He said that the claims made by the astrologer are false and so the police has been asked to investigate the “conspiracy”. Former Navy?sailor and now astrologer Wijemuni Vijitha Rohana de Silva had made the claims on social media. He is no

20 Dec, 2016

Sri Lankan poet Anne Ranasinghe passed away

Internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan poet?Anne Ranasinghe has passed away.?Anne Ranasinghe has won numerous local and international awards for her writing including the Sri Lanka Arts Council Prize for Poetry 1985 and 1992 and non-fiction in 1987. In 1994, she won the Sri Lanka Literary Award for best collection of short stories. Born on October 2, 1925 as Anneliese Katz in Essen in Germany, Anne Ranasinghe escaped?from Nazi Germany to England. She married a Sri Lankan professor and became a c

19 Dec, 2016