Colombo / New Delhi, 10 October 2025: Healthy Ageing through strengthened primary health care and combating smokeless tobacco are among key priorities that health leaders would deliberate upon at the Seventy-eighth Regional Committee Session of WHO South-East Asia, hosted by Sri Lanka from 13 to 15 October.
The Prime Minister, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya participated in the closing ceremony of the Symposium on Climate Action 2025 held at Shangri-La, Colombo, on 1st October 2025.
Inaugural Session of the Student Parliament of Mahamathya Vidyalaya Athurugiriya held at Presidential Secretariat.
The “Colombo Robotics Meetup 2025” programme, organized collaboratively by the National Initiative for Research and Development Commercialisation (NIRDC), Sri Lanka Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), National Enterprise Development Authority (NEDA) and Export Development Board (EDB) in partnership with NSBM Green University, was successfully held yesterday (12) at the NSBM Green University premises.
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, speaking in Parliament today (11th), stated that she condemns the immoral threat made by Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Prasad Siriwardena towards Member of Parliament Lakmali Hemachandra.
A System to pay bus fare via bank cards
A ceremonial insignia pinning was held on 06 Sep 25 at the Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS) Headquarters in Gangewadiya, Puttalam, to recognize 3 officers and 34 sailors upon their successful completion of the six-month RABS Qualifying Course-29. At the invitation of the Commanding Officer RABS, Captain Sudesh Chinthaka and Commander Northwestern Naval Area, Rear Admiral Varuna Ferdinandusz, the ceremony was presided over by the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Kanchana Banagoda.
Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka, H.E. Akio ISOMATA, attended the opening ceremony of the Habarana-Veyangoda Transmission Line Project at New Habarana grid substation, together with Kumara Jayakody, Minister of Energy, Mr. Wasantha Edussuriya, General Manager of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), and Mr. Kenji KURONUMA, Chief Representative of JICA Sri Lanka Office yesterday (3)
The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) recently held a strategic meeting with 15 newly appointed diplomatic representatives, aimed at strengthening the country's export capabilities and enhancing market penetration across diverse international regions.
In line with the annual Aadi Vel festival of the Sammangodu Sri Kathirvelayutha Swamy Kovil in Colombo, Secretary to the President, Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake participated yesterday (07) in a religious ritual by offering a tray of Pooja to the Theru (chariot) as it passed in front of the Presidential Secretariat during its street procession.
Several spells of showers will occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-Western provinces and in Galle and Matara districts.
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