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Sri Lanka tops in 2015 HDI in South Asia Region

Sri Lanka has maintained its high ranking in 2015 human development index (HDI) in the South Asia Region. In the 2015 Global Human Development Report (HDR) released by...

January 23, 2016

Anuradha Roy wins 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Indian writer Anuradha Roy has won the on the prestigious $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’. She was awarded with prize...

January 16, 2016

Sri Lanka initiates process to formulate new constitution

The process to formulate new constitution in Sri Lanka has begun to replace the current executive president headed constitution. In this regard, a resolution to set up a...

January 9, 2016

Sri Lanka won't allow any country to set up naval base on its territory

Sri Lankan Government has announced that they would not any country to set up naval base on its territory. This announcement was made by Sri Lankan Prime Minister...

November 24, 2015

UNHRC unanimously adopts resolution on Sri Lanka

United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has unanimously adopted US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka on the report submitted by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka....

October 2, 2015

Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in PM of Sri Lanka

Ranil Wickremesinghe has sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for fourth time. He was administered the oath of office by President Maithripala Sirisena at the oath...

August 21, 2015

Sri Lanka General Elections 2015: UNFGG emerges as largest group

United National Party (UNP) led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) has emerged as largest group by winning 106 seats out of total 225 seats in Sri...

August 19, 2015

Atul Keshap appointed as US Ambassador to Maldives and Sri Lanka

Indian-American Atul Keshap has been appointed as the United States (US) Ambassador to Maldives and Sri Lanka. With this appointment he became the second Indian-origin US diplomat to...

August 7, 2015

Thomas Cook (India) Ltd buys Sri Lankan firm Luxe Asia Pvt. Ltd

Major tour operator Thomas Cook (India) Ltd has acquired Sri Lanka based destination management company Luxe Asia Pvt. Ltd. The acquisition was done in undisclosed deal was made...

August 1, 2015

Sri Lanka inks MoU with Google to launch Project Google Loon

Government of Sri Lanka inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with search engine giant Google to launch the Google Loon project in the country. As per the MoU,...

July 28, 2015

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