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Japanese Amb. meets Dinesh Japan has expressed regret after Sri Lanka scrapped the 2019 deal with New Delhi and Tokyo for the development of the Colombo port’s East Container Terminal.  A Japanese Embassy official in Delhi responding to Indian news agency WION’, “expressed regret at the unilateral decision taken by Sri Lanka”. The Sri Lankan cabinet on Monday unanimously approved that the East Terminal of the port will be developed solely by the Sri Lanka Port Authority (SLPA). WION report: “Meanwhile in the aftermath of the development, Japan envoy to Colombo Akira Sugiyama met ...

Posted on February 3rd, 2021 New Delhi to issue statement on the Lankan cabinet’s decision to back out on the East Terminal deal and offer the West Terminal instead as a sop. Colombo, February 3: India-Sri Lanka relations have come under strain following Sri Lanka’s withdrawal from its written commitment to give Colombo port’s Easter Container Terminal (ECT) to India, and to offer the West Container Terminal (WCT) in lieu of it as a sop. A disappointed Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Fo...

Country can save a lot on energy from initiative – Amaraweera By Ifham Nizam Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday said discussions and meetings of his Ministry would no longer be held inside buildings; instead, they would happen at Wana Arana in the Environment Ministry premises, he added. “We have sunlight for eight hours or so, […]

Indian intervention in Lankan politics; Clergy raises red flag Indian intervention in Lankan politics; Clergy raises red flag Written by Share: Colombo (News 1st); There is Indian intervention when it comes to electing a new administration, alleged the Chair of the Surakimu Sri Lanka Organization, the Venerable Pahiyangala Ananda Sagara Thero. When such an administration is placed in power, they are only focused on selling the resources of the country, said the Thero adding the Palaly Housing Project is taking place according to the whims and fancies of the Indian Government and not accor...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has scrapped a deal to develop a major port terminal with India and Japan amid weeks-long protests by trade unions and opposition parties while New Delhi called on its neighbour to honour the agreement. Sri Lanka had previously agreed to develop a strategic container terminal at the Colombo port with India and Japan. Under the deal, 49 percent of the terminal’s shares were to be owned by India and Japan while Sri Lanka’s Ports Authority would retain the majority stake. But on Tuesday, Sri Lanka’s government declared the East Container Terminal a wholly owned container...