The Met Dept. forecasts several spells of showers to occur in the sea area off the coast extending from Puttalam to Matara via Colombo and Galle. Showers or thundershowers can be expected at several places in the other sea areas during the afternoon or evening.

Retiring Sri Lankan Consul Dr Thomas Cheung called on President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday (June 29) at the Presidential Secretariat to bid farewell.

The World Class University Project (WCUP-2014) of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, through the involvement of Prof. Ranil de Silva, initiated a joint venture between the USJP and the Northern Kentucky University with the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two universities recently.

On the backdrop of 2014 registering 15.1mn guest nights with tourism receipts recording $2.2 billion, the informal sector is coming out at a staggering 7.3mn guest nights said the Chairman Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau Rohantha Athukorala which is almost touching the fifty percent mark as per the analysis done by the country’s top analysis JB Securities. This will further grow, given the explosion of the on line booking companies and more travellers wanting to book online he said addressing the Annual General meeting of the Guides Association of Sri Lanka where he was the Chief Guest at the event.