Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath briefed the Colombo-based Diplomatic Corps today (2) at the Ministry on the current developments in Sri Lanka. During the briefing, he requested the international community to acknowledge the progress made by Sri Lanka and to engage in constructive dialogue, the Foreign Ministry said.
Senior officials of the Ministry of Justice & National Integration, Attorney General's Department, the Office of Missing Persons, the Office of Reparations, the Office of National Unity & Reconciliation and the Office for Overseas Sri Lankans were also present.
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake today warned that Ceylon Electricity Board Employees would have to make a choice in the next two months.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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