India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held a meeting with former Sri Lankan president Chandrika KumaratungaIn New Delhi on Wednesday, the Indo Asian News Service reported.
"Another old friend, from Sri Lanka. EAM @SushmaSwaraj meets former President Chandrika Kumaratunga," external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted after Sushma Swaraj earlier on the day met with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai.
On Tuesday, Kumaratunga addressed the Raisina Dialogue, a global conclave on geopolitics and geo-economics organised by the external affairs ministry and the Observer Research Foundation.
In her address, she said that while cooperation and economic integration proceeded very fast in the rest of the world, economic integration in South Asia was very slow. Lamenting that the India-Pakistan conflict prevented regional integration in South Asia, she, however, said that things were likely to change now with the rise of the post-Partition generation.
The Constitutional Council has approved four nominees, proposed by the President, to fill vacancies in the Court of Appeal.
The Election Commission has announced the plan for leave for both public and private sector employees for the upcoming presidential election on September 21, 2024, without loss of salary or personal leave.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will reduce fuel prices with effect from midnight today.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today called on ITAK’s Mavai Senathiraja at his residence in Jaffna today.
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