Sri Lanka to establish 'Happy Villages' to eliminate poverty

"India is a major exporter of petroleum products, especially to our neighbourhood. We have been supplying diesel to Bangladesh through waterways, rail and the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline in partnership with Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation. Diesel exports to Bangladesh have continued since then," he said.

Esmaeil Baqaei, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, on Tuesday paid tributes to the sailors of IRIS Dena who were killed after the frigate was torpedoed and sunk by a US submarine approximately 40 nautical miles off the coast of Galle, Sri Lanka.

At the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Petrina Lander, a medical student at the University of Oxford, in her oral statement, while addressing the annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child, called for stronger global support for holistic education systems.

In his first reaction following the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's Supreme Leader, US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) said that he is not happy with the selection.

Premadasa, while talking to ANI, said that Sri Lanka is facing multiple challenges and they are a risk-prone country at this particular juncture.