Srilanka

The Foreign Relations Ministry in coordination with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Rome and the Consulate General Office in Milan has taken action to closely monitor and coordinate efforts to ensure the safety of Sri Lankans residing in Italy, following the recent rise of COVID-19 cases, particularly in the Lombardy Region.

For the first time in the history a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Parliament of Sri Lanka and University Grants Commission (UGC)for the research and data mobilization.

The Defence Ministry has established a Task Force (TF) to monitor the progress to speed up the on-going investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into last yearEaster Sunday serial terrorist attacks in the country, which had claimed more than 250 lives.

The book titled ''Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections 1947 to 2015'' was presented to the Speaker of Parliament Hon. Karu Jayasuriya by The Chairman of the Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya at the Parliamentary Complex (24) afternoon. It contains information of impartant content related to elections as well as approximately 70 years of parliamentary election results.