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Sri Lanka: Chinese CCP and ruling SLPP hold joint webinar on governance
The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on Wednesday held an advanced seminar on governance via video, strictly abiding by the health guidelines of both countrie…
Journalism
India: Noted journalist Goswami arrests
Police on Wednesday arrested Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami for allegedly abetting suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer, a police official said. The official said a team of Alibaug …
Coronavirus
WHO head tested positive for Covid-19
Says he has no symptoms World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that he had been identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19, but…
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Make ''difficult but necessary'' decisions - US to Sri Lanka
"We urge Sri Lanka to make difficult but necessary decisions to secure its economic independence for long-term prosperity, and we stand ready to partner with Sri Lanka for its economic developme…
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Sri Lanka: 20A Passed with Majority
The second reading on the 20th Amendment to the constitution of Sri Lanka has passed with a majority where 165 house members voted in favour while 56 house members have voted against the amendment. …
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Sri Lanka: Grilled MP Rishad attends Parliament wearing PPE ( Video)
Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen, who is currently in remand custody, was brought to Parliament this morning (22) to participate in the second day of the debate on the 20th Amendment. The MP was br…
USA
Secretary Pompeo’s Travel to India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Indonesia
Secretary Pompeo will travel to Colombo to underscore the commitment of the United States to a partnership with a strong, sovereign Sri Lanka and to advance our common goals for a free and open Indo-…
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Sethupathi decides not to portray Muralitharan
Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi has decided not to portray Muthiah Muralitharan in 800, a biopic on the former Sri Lankan cricketer. Mr. Sethupathi, one of the top performers in Tamil cinema now, took t…
Sri Lanka
India, Sri Lanka Navies to begin three-day drill from Monday
The eighth edition of the annual SLINEX exercise will feature a series of complex drills including surface and anti-air weapon firings and cross deck flying operations with an aim to further fine-tun…
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Sri Lankan President affirms that China’s debt trap is a myth – China
Pompeo openly regards "lying, stealing, cheating" as the "glory" of the United States. He is like a broken record, playing the same "anti-China" tunes over and over agai…
Defence
Sri Lanka: Ex-STF head now says he knew Zahran and NTJ before the attack
by Rathindra Kuruwita Former Commandant of the STF, Senior DIG (Retd.) M.R. Latheef earlier told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday attacks that he heard …
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Sri Lanka: Merging North–East is the major obstacle to unity of Sri Lankans
Former President J R Jayewardene had, in 1987, merged the Eastern and Northern Provinces under Indian pressure. Then leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) late M.H.M. Ashraff and the Muslims…
Diplomacy
Sri Lanka cannot be a soccer ground for geo-political powers
Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage reiterated today that Sri Lanka cannot be a soccer ground for geo -political powers to play considering the strategic location of the country in the…
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Sri Lanka: Number of Covid-19 infected victims in fresh cluster rises to 832
UPDATED Another 220 employees at a garment factory in Minuwangoda have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, Army Commander Shavendra Silva told the media. The number of infected persons identified by…
Coronavirus
Sri Lanka: 69 new Covid-19 cases detected at Community level
Among the Minuwangoda apparel factory employees who underwent PCR tests, 69 tested positive for COVID -19, Army Commander told the media.
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Sri Lanka: Daughter uses ‘death certificate’ of living mother to get French citizenship
Father of two (?) daughters died in 2014 but fake death certificates stated both mother and father killed in mortars in 2009. by Our Defence Correspondent Many international rights groups representi…
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Sri Lanka: Journalist arrests for his asylum plot
On the advice of my uncle in Poland, I tried to go to Poland via Romania - ex-journo spilled the beans by Our Defence Correspondent A man named Balasubramaniam Senduran, a resident in Colombo ha…
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Leading Buddhist monk says that Sri Lanka is a Chinese colony – Chinese will enter the Parliament soon
The General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena, pioneering Buddhist organization in the country, Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera says that the Chinese will soon obtain dual citizenship and represent Sri La…
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Israel, UAE, Bahrain ink diplomatic accords in White House ceremony
US President Donald Trump hosts the signing of historic diplomatic accords between Israel and two Gulf Arab states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, in Washington on Tuesday. Hundreds of guest…
Human Rights
Human Rights: 20th amendment may negatively impact on Sri Lanka
I encourage the Council to give renewed attention to Sri Lanka - UN Human Rights Head While delivering the opening statement of the 45th session of the Human Rights Council by Michelle Bachelet, U…
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