🇱🇰🇮🇳 Young minds celebrated the friendship between Sri Lanka and India through art, essays, poetry and performances at the Sri Lanka Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) Project Award Ceremony in New Delhi.
Supported by the India–Sri Lanka Foundation and implemented by the Rotary Club of Delhi Resources, the initiative encouraged students from schools across Delhi NCR to learn about Sri Lanka while strengthening people-to-people ties between the two countries.
Education must change according to the global job market and modern times. But not if it harms our local culture,” MP Namal Rajapaksa warned that Sri Lanka risks decline if reforms incompatible with the country’s culture, religion, and historical values are implemented.
“One thing that I’ve learnt in life is you can only do your very best,” Sri Lankan-born Prof. Nishan Canagarajah has been knighted in the 2026 King’s New Year Honours. The award recognises Professor Canagarajah’s significant contribution to higher education, particularly his efforts in promoting inclusion.
Locals in Sreepur, Gazipur, buried a 26-year-old man in a waist-deep pit after he allegedly assaulted his mother during a dispute over money, police in Bangladesh say.
Authorities later rescued the man and took him into custody, while the woman was treated for injuries.
Addressing the nation, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says all steps needed for the expected change depend on building stability & trust in the economy.
Therefore, discussions with the IMF will resume soon & the process of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will be advanced.
The debt restructuring process will continue, and steps will be taken to bring about debt relief as soon as possible through discussions with relevant parties.