BBC: India has suspended visa services for Canadian citizens amid an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Visa service provider BLS posted a message from India's mission blaming "operational reasons" for the decision. Tensions flared this week after ...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's opposition leader raised concerns in parliament on Thursday (21) over the fact that ruling party MPs were accompanying the President to the UN General Assembly in New York, instead of high-ranking government officials. He said given that Sri Lanka is currently ex...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Former Sri Lankan lawmaker Nishantha Muthuhettigama was returned to remand custody until the 27th of September in the case filed over the possession of an illegally assembled vehicle. Local authorities had filed a case against Muthuhettigama for the possession of an illegally as...

COLOMBO (News 1st); His Majesty, the King of Malaysia has extended a formal invitation to the President of Sri Lanka to engage in a state visit to Mayalsia in 2024. According to the President's Media Division, President Ranil Wickremesinghe accepted this invitation and has expressed his intent ...

The United States on Wednesday (20) announced the commitment of more than US $19 million in additional funds to further the development of Sri Lanka, in a ceremony at the Sri Lanka Ministry of Finance. The U.S. $19.23 million (Rs 6.2 billion) is obligated through the Development Objective Grant Agr...