Former Air Force Commander Roshan Goonetileke appointed WP Governor

India committed to support Sri Lanka’s development

India is committed to support Sri Lanka’s development, particularly in improving livelihoods, the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha, said. High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha and Minister of Urban Development, Construction and Housing, Anura Karunathilaka, jointly inaugurated and handed over Chandran Nagar Model Village in Mullaitivu to 24 beneficiary families. Nagalingam Vethanayagan, Governor of Northern Province and Dr Sellaththamby Thilaganathan, Member

29 May, 2025

Sri Lanka to engage with EU to address emerging economic pressures

Sri Lanka hopes to engage in broader cooperation with the European Union to address emerging economic pressures, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, in the context of Poland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union Radosław Sikorski, currently on an official visit to Sri Lanka, met with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday. The discussions focused extensively on strengthening cooperat

29 May, 2025

“They raped us on the road in public” MSF exposes systematic use of rape as a weapon in Sudan’s war

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has raised the alarm over the widespread use of rape as a weapon in Sudan’s war. In Darfur region, hundreds of women and girls some as young as five, have come forward with accounts of brutal, public, and repeated sexual violence by armed groups. MSF medical teams working in Darfur and in refugee camps across the border in Chad describe the scale and severity of sexual violence as a campaign of terror aimed at humiliating, punishing, and destroying entire communi

01 Jun, 2025