Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Indika Sri Aravinda The Government has decided to review dual citizenships granted to over 2000 people and most of it will be cancelled. The Minister of Public Order, Disaster Management an ...
Daily Archives: February 27, 2015
Mixed reaction over human rights report deferment:British Tamil Forum unhappy
Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Manjula Fernando The decision to defer the human rights report on Sri Lanka by six months by UN Human Rights High Commissioner Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, received mixed reactions f ...
India among the four largest overall investors in Sri Lanka
Sunday, 22nd February 2015 India is Sri Lanka's closest neighbour. The relationship between the two countries is more than 2,500 years old and both sides have built upon a legacy of intellectual, cultural, religious and ...
Sri Lanka-India-China: Balancing regional power relations
Sunday, 22nd February 2015 By Kalyananda Godage Our relations with China go back to more than a thousand five hundred years. We do have a deep-rooted relationship based on trust and mutual interests. In recent times we ...
Projects not meeting CEA standards to be grounded
Sunday, 22nd February 2015 The Government has the right to halt any project if necessary to ensure that any environmental risks and hazards are adequately dealt with, the country's new environment regulator head told t ...
UN Under Secretary General to visit Sri Lanka
The Under Secretary General of the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Jeffrey Feltman will visit Sri Lanka from 28 February to 3 March 2015. This visit which follows the meeting on 13 February between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera in New York manifests Sri Lanka’s renewed engagement with the United Nations.