India s Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar today (17 March) inaugurated the Sri Lankan exhibition ÂGeoffrey Bawa; It is Essential To be ThereÂ, at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.

Aljazeera reported that Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic has issued a decree to dissolve parliament, days before a presidential election. The move on Thursday came as a three-month legal deadline expired for former top diplomat and prime minister-designate Miodrag Lekic to form a government. According to the country’s constitution, an election should be called a day […]

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila in terms of the Right to Information (RTI) Act has asked the Immigration and Emigration Department whether the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Joseph Burns arrived in Sri Lanka through the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA). The former Power and Energy Minister’s Office told The Island that the […]

 by PRIYAN DE SILVA  Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Reforms and Electoral Studies Manjula Gajanayake says political parties are bent on preventing the election of women local councils.Gajanayake said the sitting female councillors were not allowed to contest their wards and they were placed on the additional list or made to contest other […]