Following are the decisions taken at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday, January 11. Entering into a memorandum of understanding between Sri Lanka and Oman for mutually waiving the need to obtain a visa permit for individuals possessing diplomatic, special, service and official passports.
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said that it has not given up its fight for the country to retain the full ownership of the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port with the Sri Lankan Ports Authority whilst accusing the subject ministers of attempting to grant a minority stake to India.
If nothing else, our much-troubled post-independence years have shown us the misfortunes that wars/insurrections can bring. When men cannot settle their differences amicably, weapons speak, wars happen; bringing violent death, destruction to the economic structure and the overall deterioration of social standards.
US: Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region. Co-author Maxime Aubert of Australia’s Griffith University told AFP it was found
A driver of a luxury bus with 18 kgs of ICE drugs (Crystal methamphetamine) was arrested in Kosgoda this morning during a raid conducted by the Colombo Crimes Division, said the Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana. He said it was revealed that, the 27-year-old driver had distributed the drugs to local dealers while driving the bus which was heading to Colombo from Galle. The