Sri Lankan foreign minister MangalaSamaraweera will visit India on January 18 in what will be the first high level exchange between the 2 countries since the new government in the island nation took over, the Times of India reported. Samaraweera decided to make India his first port of call after receiving an invite from his counterpart Sushma Swaraj. PM Narendra Modi had earlier invited President Maithripala Sirisena to visit India at the earliest. Sirisena's spokesperson responded by saying that the president's first overseas trip would be to India. Swaraj had a telephonic conversation last evening with the newly appointed Samaraweera. Swaraj congratulated him and invited him to visit India at an early date. This was followed by a written invitation. "The invitation has now been accepted. Mr. Samaraweera has decided to visit India, his first overseas visit as Foreign Minister, for discussions with Smt. Swaraj on 18 January" said a source.
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.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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