COLOMBO — Sri Lanka on Saturday suspended plans to scrap on-arrival visas for most nationals, including visitors from the US, Europe, Australia and Japan.
The government had announced it was withdrawing the landing endorsements from September 30 in a move widely seen as potentially damaging to the island’s tourism industry, which is recovering from 37 years [...]
RIYADH: The Sri Lankan Embassy received on Saturday the medical report regarding the Sri Lankan housemaid who was found with 24 nails and needles embedded in her legs, arms, hands and forehead, allegedly pushed into her body by the Saudi couple she worked for as a method of punishment.
A video statement from the victim translated [...]
The Government has taken steps to launch a project to digitally map the country to create a database and the pilot project will be started from the Gampha district today. The Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Defence with the assistance of the Kelaniya University has launched this special project, Minister of Public [...]
Though most critics talked about the war in Sri Lanka no one spoke of the hardships the armed forces had to undergo to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), said Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa during his submissions to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee (LL&RC) in Colombo today.
The government had to study the [...]
Opposition parties in Sri Lanka Wednesday were up in the arms against the court martial of former Army chief Sarath Fonseka, who played a key role in crushing the Tamil rebels last year, thus ending a two decades-long ethnic conflict in the island country.
Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has asked the ruling government to table complete [...]
Sri Lankan military court has convicted Sarath Fonseka, a former army chief, of meddling in politics, the AFP news agency has reported quoting a senior military source.
“The guilty verdict was read out to General Fonseka at the court martial a short while ago,” the military source told AFP on Friday.
“The president as commander-in-chief must now [...]
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland has bagged an order worth $26 million to export 1,000 buses to Sri Lanka by March 2011.
The order is for Viking buses with seating capacity varying from 42 and 58. The buses will be supplied to People Leasing Company, which in turn will sell these to the private sector there, [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stripped Mervyn Silva from his deputy minister post and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party has cancelled his party membership, President’s media told a short while ago.
The incident involving Minister Mervin Silva sparked protests from the opposition and development officers. According to officials in the Presidential Secretariat, the Highways Minister has been [...]
De-mining operations will be completed in the Jaffna peninsula by September this year, says Security Forces Commander, Jaffna Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe. Baring Muhamalai, the entire peninsula is expected to be mine free, according the Jaffna Commander.
Most of the areas along the northern railway line have been cleared of land mines and other improvised explosives [...]
Sri Lanka immigration authorities instructs the passport holders to fill in the blanks provided in the inner cover of the passports when they go abroad and the Controller of Immigration and Emigration has requested the people to consider it as a requirement as this information is vital in the event of a death, an accident [...]
