November 14, 2024
Rural bridges to help six million people
July 15, 2014The first phase of building 210 bridges under a programme to construct 1210 rural bridges island-wide is now almost nearing the target. Already work on 100 of these has been fully completed under Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s direction.
The second round of Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) between Sri Lanka and Belarus was held on the sidelines of the 1stsession of the Joint Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation on 10th July 2014, at the Ministry of External Affairs in Colombo.
Ashan Priyanjan named as Captain of the Sri Lanka A team for the tour of England and Ireland, replacing Upul Tharanga who will be part of the National squad for the upcoming South Africa Test series. Kusal Janith Perera appointed as the Vice-Captain of the team.
The Government of India is happy to announce a partnership with the Government of Sri Lanka to assist in the setting up of a Faculty of Agriculture and a Faculty of Engineering for the University of Jaffna at Kilinochchi. A Memorandum of Understanding between the two Governments for the implementation of this project was signed on today (14) between the High Commissioner of India, Y.K. Sinha, and the Secretary to the Ministry of Higher Education, Dr. Sunil Jayantha Nawaratne, in the presence of S.B.Dissanayake, Minister of Higher Education, Government of Sri Lanka and Ms. Vasanthy Arasaratnam, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
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