Srilanka

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe deployed new luxury buses to SLTB today at Shalika Ground in Narahenpitiya. Transport Minister Arjuna Ranatunga, State Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Ashok Abeysinghe, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Transport Board Upali Marasinghe were also present at the event.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made a brief visit to Sri Lanka this morning while on his way to Osaka, Japan to attend the G20 Summit. He was accompanied by a delegation of 20 members. They were welcomed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Minister Arjuna Ranatunga.The President was hosted to tea at the VVIP lounge at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA). fter refueling, the special plane carrying the South African President and the delegation left for Japan at around noon.

President Maithripala Sirisena met with the Ambassadors and High Commissioners of Muslim countries holding the membership of the Organization of Islam Countries (OIC) to discuss about the current security situation in the country at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (June 26).He thanked the envoys for the cooperation and assistance provided to Sri Lanka at this time of need and urged them to continue to provide economic assistance and lift the travel advisories issued to tourists. He also noted that some of the OIC member countries have provided the assistance of intelligence experts for the counter terror operations. Explaining the successful operations carried out by the security forces and intelligence services, he thanked the envoys for the intelligence expertise and cooperation provided by those countries.

Sri Lankan Airlines' was the latest to jump on the environmental bandwagon, initiated by the Sri Lanka Army by offering a stock of 5,000 saplings of rare species to be planted in the Wilpattu National Reserve under the ongoing 'Thuruliya Wenuwen Api' reforestation project, conceptualized by the Commander of the Army and implemented by the Security Force Headquarters - Wanni.