The enduring fisheries conflict in the Palk Bay - which impacts fisher folk of northern Sri Lanka and daily wage fishermen of Tamil Nadu - can be decisively resolved only if the Indian side stops using the destructive bottomtrawling method, according to Sri Lanka s Minister of Fisheries Ramalingam Chandrasekar. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:29 AM)
U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State, Ambassador Donald Lu, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Robert Kaproth...MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:02 AM)
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentary group, led by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, has commenced signing the Motion of No Confidence against the Speaker of Parliament, according to the SJB Media Unit. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (3:42 PM)
Former Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) Director, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Nevil Silva, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), has been further remanded until December 20 by the Ratnapura Magistrate s Court. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (5:43 PM)
Indian conglomerate Adani Group s port project in Sri Lanka will go ahead despite US charges against its founder and sudden changes to its financing, the island nation said Friday. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (2:34 PM)
A diplomat who "entrapped" a domestic worker in her Canberra home, forcing her to work 14 hours, seven days a week, for less than a dollar an hour, has been fined more than $100,000 in the Australian federal court. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:57 AM)