Qi'dah 1436 - 26 août 2015 (SPA) - L'ambassade du Serviteur des Deux Saintes Mosquées auprès de la République du Sri Lanka a fait ses adieux, mardi, au premier contingent de pèlerins sri-lankais se rendant aux Lieux Saints pour effectuer les rites (...)
Qi'dah 1436 - 26 août 2015 (SPA) - L'ambassade du Serviteur des Deux Saintes Mosquées auprès de la République du Sri Lanka a fait ses adieux, mardi, au premier contingent de pèlerins sri-lankais se rendant aux Lieux Saints pour effectuer les rites (...)
AlHijjah 12, 1436, Sep 26, 2015, SPA -- Seven people were buried alive in a landslide at a
tea plantation in central Sri Lanka, dpa quoted disaster relief officials as saying
Saturday.
A row of houses on the estate in Kotmale were buried under the (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1436, August 25, 2015, SPA --The officials of the Saudi Embassy in the Republic of Sri Lanka saw off today the first group of pilgrims leaving for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj rituals this year 1436 AH.
The pilgrims were (...)
AlQa'dah 03, 1436, August 18, 2015, SPA -- The ruling party led by Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe won Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections, officials
said Tuesday, according to dpa.
Preliminary final results showed the ruling United National (...)
AlQa'dah 2, 1436, Aug 17, 2015, SPA -- Voting in Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections on
Monday ended after a high turnout, dpa cited officials as saying.
Over 65 per cent of the registered 15 million voters turned up for
one the most peaceful (...)
AlQa'dah 21, 1435, September 16, 2014, SPA -- Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Sri Lanka
Tuesday on a visit highlighting major China-backed construction projects, dpa reported.
Xi was welcomed by his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa (...)
AlQa'dah 19, 1435, Sep 14, 2014, SPA -- Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Maldives on Sunday, officials said.
During his two-day trip, Xi will meet with his Maldivian counterpart, Abdulla Yameen, and the two are expected to sign several (...)
AlQa'dah 12, 1435, September 07, 2014, SPA -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has met here with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed cooperation relations between the two countries, as well as issues (...)
AlHijjah 26, 1434, Oct 31, 2013, SPA -- Britain warned Thursday that additional delays in the Maldives' troubled presidential election could tarnish the country's reputation and harm an economy heavily reliant on tourism.
According to AP, the (...)
AlQa'dah 28, 1434, Oct 4, 2013, SPA -- Sri Lanka's navy rescued 70 suspected illegal migrants Friday after a fishing boat they were traveling in was found stranded in international waters off the country's southern coast.
According to AP, the Sri (...)
AlQa'dah 19, 1434, Sep 25, 2013, SPA -- The European Union has called on authorities in the Maldives not to delay a presidential runoff after the Supreme Court postponed the election indefinitely following a complaint of alleged irregularities, AP (...)
AlQa'dah 2, 1434, Sep 8, 2013, SPA -- Former Maldivian leader Mohammed Nasheed will face a run-off election on Sept. 28 after his win in the presidential poll ended without a majority, Election Commissioner Fuwad Thowfeek said on Sunday, according (...)
AlQa'dah 01, 1434, September 07, 2013, SPA -- The Maldives began voting for new president Saturday amid tight security and an expected high turnout, dpa reported.
Nearly 240,000 voters were registered, including 65,745 who will cast ballots (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1433, Nov 10, 2012, SPA - A riot at a Sri Lankan prison left 27 dead and 43 injured, officials said.
Clashes broke out in the high-security prison in northern Colombo after special task force members began to check the prison for drugs, (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1433, Nov 9, 2012, SPA -- At least 10 inmates in a Sri Lankan prison were killed in a shootout with security forces and 12 others were wounded Friday, a doctor confirmed, according to AP.
Dr. Prasad Kariyawasam of Colombo National (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1433, Nov 2, 2012, SPA - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa met here today the Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Bin Alawi bin Abdullah.
The meeting comes within Bin Alawi's current visit to Sri Lanka, during which he signed (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1433, Oct 30, 2012, SPA - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has received Saudi Minister of Finance and Chairman of Board of Directors of Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, who arrived in Colombo (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- A storm and floods in Sri Lanka left at least 12 people dead, local officials said on Friday.
According to dpa, gale-force winds also injured 50 people and damaged over 1,000 houses in the southern districts (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA Sri -- Lanka's jailed former army chief was sentenced Friday to three more years in prison for reportedly implicating the defense secretary in war crimes at the end of the country's civil war, AP reported.
Two (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1432, Oct 9, 2011, SPA - The final phase of local elections in Sri Lanka ended on Saturday with a shooting incident that left a presidential advisor and three others dead and 12 injured, including a member of parliament, officials (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1432, Oct 8, 2011, SPA -- Three people including an adviser to Sri Lanka's president were killed Saturday in election-related violence just outside the capital, police said.
According to AP, a police official said former lawmaker (...)