Citing security concerns, senior Sri Lankan cricketers refuse to travel to Pakistan
By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Correspondent Islamabad: Several senior Sri Lankan players have expressed their reservations over travelling to Pakistan for the upcoming one-day international and T20 series. According to a report on BBC Urdu, senior players including ODI captain Dimuth Karunaratne, T20 captain Lasith Malinga and former captain Angelo Mathews have refused to travel to […]
In Sri Lanka, prison turned into a cultural center
Kandy: Once a maximum-security prison over 13 acres making it the second largest in Sri Lanka, Bogambara Prison is being transformed into the Bogambara Cultural Park featuring an open air theater, studio for traditional arts and crafts, a tourist information center and multiple recreational areas. Phase I of the project was inaugurated this week […]
Sri Lanka’s beauty, heritage in focus in Los Angeles
Colombo: A photographic exhibition depicting the beauty of fauna and flora and richness of the heritage of Sri Lanka will be held in the US next month. The “Beauty of Sri Lanka” organized by the America Sri Lankan Photographic Art Society in association with the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Los Angeles will […]
Sri Lanka: No to gamblers in sports administration
Colombo: Sri Lanka is to amend rules and regulations in the Sports Law in order to ban anyone linked to betting from holding any portfolio in cricket administration. “We are going to put out a gazette notification to make amendments to some rules and regulations concerning sports in Sri Lanka,” Sports Minister Harin Fernando […]
Sri Lankan president berates opposition to death penalty
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has continued his verbal attack on those whom he considered as obstructing initiatives to make the country safer by opposing the enactment of tougher laws. “Certain segments who did not heed to the concerns of society to formulate stronger and tougher laws to eradicate terrorism in the aftermath of […]
Sri Lanka building up a nutritious young generation thanks to local dairy industry
Colombo: A national program in Sri Lanka to provide a packet of liquid milk to around 600,000 primary students is well underway. The program, under President Maithripala Sirisena’s concept of creating a ‘Nutritious young generation of a nation bountiful with milk,’ is coupled with a plan to make Sri Lanka self-sufficient in liquid milk […]
AJA Statement on Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka
Asia Journalist Association condemns the Sri Lanka’s blasts which were reported in Colombo and Negombo, in the southwest of the country, and in Batticaloa, on the other side of the island, as Christians celebrate Easter Sunday. AJA considers each act against innocent people is an act of terror. While we, members of AJA, send our […]
S. Korea consoles Sri Lanka over deadly Easter Sunday explosions
South Korea expressed words of consolation Monday to the people and government of Sri Lanka over the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that claimed over 200 lives in the South Asian country. “We offer our condolences and consolation to those who were killed in the April 21 explosions and their families, also the people and the […]
Multilateral diplomacy war in the indian ocean
In January this year, Prime Minister Abe made official visits to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives with the aim of expanding its operations in the region and held key talks with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in Rohingy last March: discussed in detail on the economy, maritime cooperation, security and regional order. An agreement was […]
Saudi Arabia reconsiders stoning sentence of Sri Lankan woman
A Saudi court has decided to reopen the case of a Sri Lankan woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, according to a Sri Lankan government minister. Harsha de Silva, the deputy foreign minister, told parliament on Tuesday 8th December that an appeals court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, has decided to […]
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