May 19, 2021
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Sri Lanka tour of India 2016
January 29, 2016Sri Lanka National Team will be touring India from February 06 to February 16 Sri Lanka Cricket announced. BCCI announced Visakhapatnam, Pune and Delhi. as the venues for the three T20s
Train to Tehran winds along Silk Road into West Asia
January 29, 2016China on Thursday demonstrated the integration of West Asia in its New Silk Road connectivity project by flagging a train from its trading hub of Yiwu to Tehran, The Hindu reported.
The container train will cover a journey of 10,399 km in its maiden journey to West Asia in14 days. It will exit China through Alataw Pass in western China’s Xinjiang province, and then pass through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan before heading for the Iranian capital. Yiwu is already connected by trains that head for Duisburg in Germany and Madrid.
Cabinet nod to develop Govt. Analyst's Dept. and the CID
January 29, 2016Sri Lankan Government is planning to implement a project to develop the capacities of of the Government Analyst’s Department and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) with a grant of US$ 3.2 million by the Korean International Cooperation Agency.
President Maithripala Sirisena has given instructions to relevant officials to establish a Special Intelligence Unit to raid illegal drugs.
Even though the officials raided illegal drugs at number of times and confiscated huge stocks, the statistics show us that the consumption of illegal drugs like heroin has not reduced, the President said. He has also instructed the officials to immediately provide him a report in this regard.
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