Thursday, 20th November 2014 Chaminda Perera The five Indian fishermen sentenced to death in Sri Lanka on drug smuggling charges, were freed yesterday, after they were pardoned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. President ...
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More than 5,000 foreign students in SL universities – SB
Thursday, 20th November 2014 by Dasun Edirisinghe More than 5,000 foreign students were studying in Sri Lanka at present at the state universities and degree awarding institutions, Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissan ...
Sri Lanka’s famous Galle Face Hotel doorman dies
Tuesday, 18th November 2014 By Charles Haviland BBC News Kottarappu Chattu Kuttan was a Colombo institution A doorman who worked for 72 years at the most famous hotel in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, has di ...
Sri Lanka Embassy donates books on Buddhism to the University of Warsaw
Research on Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy has created great interest among non-Buddhist western scholars. On the request of the graduate and undergraduate students following Anthropology, Sociology and ...
Sri Lanka to support bank for South Asian region
Friday, 14th November 2014 COLOMBO, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka will support establishing a bank among South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to help finance infrastructure developme ...
Sri Lanka and Thailand launch diamond jubilee celebrations of diplomatic relations
The celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and Thailand is being launched today, (20 November 2014). The two countries established formal diplomatic relations on 20 November 1955. Sri Lanka and Thailand have a long history of close religious, cultural and trade links fostered over several centuries.
Buddhism has played a pivotal and catalytic role over several hundred years in binding the two countries together, and relations have been further consolidated since the establishment of diplomatic relations. At present, the two countries enjoy strong and warm relations in a variety of spheres ranging from political and economic to religious and cultural, people-to-people contacts, as well as mutually beneficial cooperation in the regional and international fora.
Sethusamudhram canal works – Not a befitting project
Wednesday, 19th November (Writer R. Natarajan) ...
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