Man dies after being shot at in Monaragala

Pakistan-Saudi Arabia rift widens after OIC Foreign Ministers Summit

Pakistan hosted the 17th extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council (OIC) of foreign ministers on the Afghanistan situation in Islamabad on December 19, 2021. The conference was attended by envoys from 57 Islamic nations and about 70 observer delegations from US, China, Russia, EU and the UN. Although, the purported objective of the gathering was to help salvage Afghanistan from humanitarian crisis, Pakistan tried to rake up unrelated issues, which Saudi Arabia did

31 Dec, 2021

Basil Rajapaksa to visit India again

Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa is to lead a delegation to the ?Vibrant Gujarat? summit to be held from January 10 to 12, official sources said. He is likely to hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during this visit, his second to India in about a month. The Minister ? the youngest brother of Sri Lanka?s ruling clan and an influential politician ? would travel to India a day after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concludes his two-day visit to the island nation, signalling Colombo?s in

31 Dec, 2021

Another 41 people detected with Omicron in Sri Lanka

Another 41 people have been detected with the Omicron Covid variant in Sri Lanka, health officials said. Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara said that 41 new cases of Omicron were detected at the Sri Jayewardenepura lab. Dr. Chandima Jeewandara said that a number of measures have been put in place to contain the spread of Omicron in Sri Lanka. He said that the booster dose is priority to prevent the

31 Dec, 2021