Future benefits for Sri Lankan expatriates working abroad to be linked to quantum of remittances – Central Bank of Sri Lanka  Remittances by Sri Lankans employed abroad have been an important flow of foreign exchange into the country, with an annual average value of over US dollars 7 billion in the past five years. Considering the importance of this steady …

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The Turkish foreign minister on Saturday said Turkey wants to develop holistic relations with Asia that has become the center of global economic power. Inaugurating a new office of Sri Lanka’s Antalya Honorary Consulate General in the town of Alanya, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara desires to promote cooperation with Sri Lanka in fields such as economy, culture, and education. Emphasizing …

November 2 marks the 104th anniversary of Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 when Britain imperial power gave Palestine illegally and immorally to Jews who have not even seen Palestine to set up a Jewish racist state of Israel. During the second half of 19th century the British Empire wanted to ensure the Middle East remains destabilized. At the same …

Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists lift banners and placards during a demonstration against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, in Jerusalem’s Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on March 19, 2021 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]   Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said recently that his government opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state He went …

The latest desecration is taking place at al-Yusufiyah cemetery, a centuries-old Muslim graveyard in occupied Jerusalem. Last week, a Palestinian mother clung onto her son’s grave as Israeli forces tried to forcibly remove her. [Mostafa Alkharouf-Anadolu Agency] Even in death, Palestinians, it seems, have no respite from Israeli officials intent on stripping them of their dignity and humanity. The latest …