Former Prisons Commissioner and IP further remanded

Bangladesh appoints diplomat in New York as envoy to Sri Lanka

The Bangladesh Government has decided to appoint Tareq Md Ariful Islam as the next high commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, the Daily Star reported. The High Commissioner-designate is currently serving as the Deputy Permanent representative in the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York, according to a press release of the External Publicity Wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued today. Tareq Md Ariful Islam is a career foreign service officer belonging t

05 Jul, 2020

Six Sri Lankan fishermen rescued from rough seas

Six Sri Lankan fishermen were rescued from rough seas on Sunday morning in a coordinated operation between Indian Coast Guard’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) and merchant vessel MV YM Summit. In a statement issued in Chennai, the Coast Guard said the merchant vessel was on her way to Visakhapatnam when she sighted a capsised fishing boat with six survivors atop, approximately 170 nautical miles east of Chennai. The merchant vessel transmitted the information to MRCC, Mumbai, which

05 Jul, 2020

PM warns against becoming prisoners of circumstances

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has called on the public to give the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) an overwhelming mandate exceeding even that of the presidential election of 2019, in order to put an end to narrow minded communalism in the politics of this country.? Prime Minister Rajapaksa stated that a political party that caters to a single ethnic or religious community only looks after the narrow interests of that group and considers other communities to be outsiders or even enemies.

05 Jul, 2020