The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law of Singapore K. Shanmugam will be visiting Sri Lanka and India from Feb 23 -26, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Mr. K. Shanmugam's trip to Sri Lanka is aimed at reaffirming the strong and friendly relations between Singapore and Sri Lanka. He will visit Colombo, where he will call on President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He will also meet Minister of External Affairs Mangala Samaraweera and Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran. In India, Mr. K. Shanmugam will discuss how Singapore can strengthen bilateral cooperation with the states of Rajasthan and Andra Pradesh in meetings with their Chief Ministers. For the Rajasthan leg of the trip, Mr. K. Shanmugam will be accompanied by representatives from Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE), Temasek Foundation, ITE Education Services (ITEES) and a business delegation led by International Enterprise Singapore (IES).
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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