Sri Lanka

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Sri Lanka’s Catholic church demands justice for Easter Sunday victims

11:41 pm March 29, 2021

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Catholic church on Monday reiterated its demand for justice in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians. Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out a series of blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri […]

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National Medical Commission will bring great transparency: PM Modi

2:14 pm February 26, 2021

Chennai: The government is transforming the entire medical education and healthcare sector in the country and as part of the initiative, the National Medical Commission would bring great transparency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. The Prime Minister requested doctors to take care of their health as well by choosing a fitness regimen and […]

Sri Lanka orders 13.5 mn AstraZeneca doses, likely to drop Chinese vaccines

4:15 pm February 23, 2021

Colombo: Sri Lanka has ordered 13.5 million Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines in addition to the 500,000 doses gifted by India, and the country may not use Chinese vaccines in the second phase of immunisation, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. Ramesh Pathirana, who is also the Minister of Plantations, said Sri Lanka is likely to go only with the AstraZeneca vaccines for the second phase of […]

Sri Lanka to vaccinate MPs from Tuesday

9:57 pm February 15, 2021

Colombo: All the 225 parliamentarians in Sri Lanka will be vaccinated against the deadly COVID-19 from Tuesday, a senior lawmaker said on Monday. Sergeant at Arms of Parliament Narendra Fernando told reporters that parliamentarians have been informed to turn up at the military hospital here to receive the vaccine. ”They have been informed to receive the vaccine on February […]

Global meet on gender equality gets underway in Kerala

8:28 pm February 11, 2021

Kozhikode: The International Conference On Gender Equality (ICGE)got underway here on Thursday with Kerala Social Justice and Women and Child Development Minister K K Shailaja emphasising the need to promote social entrepreneurship in a big way for the uplift of marginalised sections. Inaugurating the second edition of ICGE, Shailaja said the South Asia’s first Gender […]