India’s Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Sri Lanka today.
State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya and Governor of the Eastern Province Senthil Thondaman received the visiting Minister.
He is scheduled to meet with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and Foreign Minister Ali Sabry.
In addition he will also meet with Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and Tamil parties before leaving later in the day.
“Look forward to my meetings with the leadership. Sri Lanka is central to our Neighborhood First and SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) policies’ Dr Jaishankar said in an X (formerly twitter) post.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
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