The Sri Lankan Navy arrested 34 Indian fishermen and seized three boats for illegal fishing in two separate incidents, reports say. The arrests happened on January 25 and 26 off the coast of the northeastern Mannar district during the Navy’s…
Sri Lankan election officials have started accepting nominations for the upcoming parliamentary election scheduled for Nov. 14, Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Ratnayake announced on Friday. Ratnayake said that nominations would be accepted at district secretaries’ offices in the…
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday, said he was deeply shocked and saddened by the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. Raisi was, on Sunday, killed in the crash along with the country’s Foreign Minister…
