By Dinasena Ratugamage Toronto Police had intervened on Sunday (21) to ensure the safety of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs M.A. Sumanthiran and Shanakiyan Rasamanickam who were about to be assaulted by some LTTE supporters, party sources said. The two MPs are in Canada holding meetings with Tamil diaspora groups to discuss the developments in […]
By Ifham Nizam Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has disclosed that a recent study by his Ministry found that Sri Lankans in 2018 have consumed 18,995,790 litres of arrack sold in 105,532,169 of 180 ml (quarter) bottles, which he vowed to ban considering environmental damage they caused. Minister Amaraweera, addressing a ceremony at Anuradhapura on Saturday […]
by Chaminda Silva Another consignment of 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine purchased by the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) arrived in the country early yesterday. The consignment weighing 5,055 kilos was first airlifted from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The vaccine stock was then flown from Dubai […]
Ambassador N.L. Godfrey Cooray presented his Letter of Credence to President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson at a ceremony held on Nov 10 at the office of the President of Iceland in Reykjavík accrediting him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Republic of Iceland. While presenting […]