Price of locally manufactured cement reduced

Tamil Nadu fishermen stage protest on Sri Lankan issue

A day after launching an indefinite strike, more than 300 fishermen, including leaders of various fishermen associations staged a protest demonstration in Tamil Nadu after entering to the sea, demanding peaceful solution to their vexatious issue and release of fishermen, arrested by the Sri Lankan navy and boats confiscated by it, The Hindu newspaper reported. Aggrieved that there was stalemate after they participated in the ?internal stakeholders? meeting chaired by External Affairs Minister S

03 Sep, 2016

Mangala to undertake official visit to Slovenia

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera will undertake an official visit to the Republic of Slovenia on 4-8 September 2016. This is the first high-level visit from Sri Lanka to the Republic of Slovenia since the election of the new Government in January 2015. Minister Samaraweera has been invited by Karl Erjavec, the Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Bled Strategic Forum 2016: ?Safeguarding the Future?. At the Bled Forum, the Foreign Minister will speak as a pa

03 Sep, 2016

UN again admits it failed on Sri Lanka during the war

The United Nations (UN) today once again admitted that it failed on Sri Lanka during the final stages of the war. Speaking to reporters after wrapping up his visit to the country, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the UN admits that it failed during the war in Sri Lanka. He recalled that a commission appointed by the UN had noted the failures of the UN during the war and the steps which need to be taken in future. However the UN Secretary General stopped short of making a public apol

02 Sep, 2016