The number of incoming tourists from The Netherlands travelling to Sri Lanka has begun to pick up, following the relaxation of the travel advisory by the Dutch Government last Friday, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs communique said. Since the recovery after the Easter Sunday bombings, Sri Lanka’s mission in The Netherlands has been lobbying the Dutch Government and recently successfully obtained a relaxing of the negative travel advisory against Sri Lanka.

The Education Ministry said there is no further need to summon parents to assure security of schools.In a statement, the Education Ministry said it had taken this decision due to the Tri-forces, the Civil Defence Force and the Police taking maximum effort to ensure security for all schools inclusive of International Schools as well.It was reported that some school authorities had caused inconvenience to some parents by not allowing children who did not carry transparent bags and prevented children from entering school.