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As search efforts ended for the day, 68 people were confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara Sunday, according to Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority. It’s the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades. Scores of […]
India scripted history during the third ODI against Sri Lanka on Sunday in Thiruvananthapuram by registering the largest margin of victory (by runs) in 50-over international cricket.
by Chithra Ramakrishnan Respected and revered by the whole world, spiritual and religious leader of Tibet, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Bodhgaya recently. For the past few years His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in Bodhgaya at the end of the year as per an invitation extended by […]
China’s lurch from extreme zero-Covid to extreme herd immunity is a watershed moment in the global ideological struggle of our age, an unanswerable illustration of why autocratic regimes are less successful in the end than messy liberal democracies. Leadership cults and totalitarian media control can at times enable breathtakingly destructive policies, and it is hard […]
President Ranil Wickremasinghe in his Thai Pongal message says that modernization of the agriculture sector is a priority for the government in its bid to create it as an effective, sustainable and profitable livelihood, and also serve the competitive international markets. The full text of the President’s Thai Pongal message reads: It is indeed a […]
Sri Lanka has decided to postpone the implementation of new COVID-19 protocols for tourists arriving in the island.The post Sri Lanka postponed implementation of new COVID-19 protocols for tourists appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that this year’s ‘Thai Pongal’ is a celebration with added significance, considering the bumper harvest of the current ‘Maha’ Season, from which the entire nation will benefit.The post Sri Lanka President’s Thai Pongal Message appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
Chelsea are “close” to signing forward Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk, the Ukrainian club says. Chelsea have agreed a fee of €70m (£62m) plus add-ons for the 22-year-old, who was a January target for Premier League rivals Arsenal. A Chelsea delegation met with Shakhtar officials, who say talks went well. Mudryk has scored seven goals […]
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says Sri Lankans must unitedly commit to contribute to the Government’s new economic and social reform program, and rebuild the country with economic affluence. In his Thai Pongal Message, the President said that this ‘Thai Pongal’ is a celebration with added significance, considering the bumper harvest of the current ‘Maha’ Season, from which […]
Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan, the Managing Director of the Virakesari published by Express Newspapers, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Her Excellency Droupadi Murmu, the President of India at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2023 Valedictory Session held on January […]
ECONOMYNEXT – An unprecedented verdict by Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ordering an ex head of state and top defence officials to pay hundreds of millions of rupees in compensation to victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings has been welcomed by the Catholic church which also anticipates criminal proceedings against some of the respondents. Head […]
Sri Lanka has completed debt restructuring talks with Japan, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said. Wickremesinghe said that Japan is one of the three main countries from who Sri Lanka has obtained loans. The other two countries are China and India. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has requested Sri Lanka to restructure its debt in order to obtain […]
President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasised the need of working within one policy framework by all while facing the economic difficulties the country is confronted with, President's Media Division (PMD) said.The post Let’s solve economic issues by working within one policy framework – President appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
We have been able to receive the support of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by building up confidence as a country -President tells trade union representatives
Vice Minister of the International Department of China s Communist Party (CPC), Chen Zhou called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe this evening (Jan 14).
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Aspirational Block Programme on the lines of a similar exercise aimed at developing backward districts, and asserted that India is focussing on the four pillars of infrastructure, investment, innovation and inclusion to be a developed country. Chairing the second national conference of state chief secretaries on its third and […]
India and Slovenia held the 9th round of Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) in Ljubljana and reviewed the progress made in the bilateral ties in the last year despite the restrictions imposed by the Covid-pandemic, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday. In a statement today, MEA said both sides also exchanged views on […]
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that India’s response to cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s request for debt restructuring is expected by the end of this month. Sri Lanka, which is trying to secure a USD 2.9 billion bridge loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been trying to to get financial assurances from its major creditors […]
A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by the Vice Chairman of its International Department, Chen Zhou, arrived in Sri Lanka today (14 Jan.).
Chinese Vice Minister Chen Zhou arrived in Sri Lanka today, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said. Chen Zhou, the Vice Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee is leading a high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to Sri Lanka. The visit of the high-level delegation is […]
In view of delay in assurance from bilateral creditors so as to fulfil the criteria of getting a bailout package of USD 2.9 Billion from the IMF, Sri Lanka is in talks with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to obtain loans worth of USD 1.9 billion. According to the Governor of the […]
The Tamil diaspora have called on more countries to sanction former Presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) welcomed the decision taken by the Canadian Government to sanction two former Sri Lankan Presidents, and called upon other progressive countries, including India, the US, EU, UK, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, Australia […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in talks with China to try and convince the country to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt. During a round-table media interaction, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that the IMF wants to help China understand both the whole issue of debt sustainability and what can be a pathway for their […]
Rex Clementine in Trivandrum The results have not gone their way true in the ODI leg of the tour of India and the series has been already lost while Sunday’s final game in Trivandrum is a dead rubber. But how well Sri Lanka’s bowlers fought back after a poor effort by the batters on Thursday. […]
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A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by the Vice Chairman of its International Department, Chen Zhou, is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka tomorrow (14 Jan.).
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks following the recent sovereign downgrade and recalibration of the agency’s Sri Lankan national rating scale.The post Fitch downgrades long-term ratings of 10 Sri Lankan Banks appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.