Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay visited Anuradhapura on Saturday morning. He called upon the chief Incumbent of the Atamasthana Most Venerable Dr. Pallegama Sirinivasa Nayaka Thera who presented him with a sapling of the Sacred Sri Maha Bodhi (Picture: demotix.com)

Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay arrived in Sri Lanka this morning. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera was at BIA to meet the Bhutanese PM. Tobgay's visit marks the first bilateral visit to Sri Lanka by a Bhutanese Head of Government.

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake (R) and Deputy Minister of Policy Planning and Economic Affairs Harsha de Silva at a press briefing last evening after the proposal to raise Government’s Treasury bill debt ceiling by 400 million was defeated in the parliament. Ravi Karunanayake said that the government was not affected by this defeat. (Photo: Daily Mirror)

Prince Harry told a teenager that "selfies are bad" when she requested one in Australia. He good-naturedly suggested the young well wisher "just take a normal photograph". Prince Harry had arrived for a four-week placement with the Australian Defence Force.

President Maithripala Sirisena arrived at Pakistani capital Islamabad on Sunday night, after a brief stopover at Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi. Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif greeted Sirisena at the Islamabad Airport

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna commemorated the 44th anniversary of the 1971 insurgency at Tangalle Town Hall on Sunday. The top leadership of the party including leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, General Secretary Tilvin Silva, Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath and former leader Somawansa Amarasinghe took part. Incidentally, JVP founder leader Rohana Wijeweera was a native of Tangalle.

Police used water cannons to disperse a protest by 'Sinhala Ravaya' organization at Kuragala, Balangoda, on Saturday. (Photo: Sinhala Ravaya/Facebook)

Landmarks were lit up in blue in dozens of cities around the globe to mark World Autism Day​ on April 2nd.

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met with US Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski. "Just met w/ #SriLanka FM @MangalaLK; Agreed that success depends on accountability & reconciliation" Malinowski tweeted a short while ago.

With the appointment of a new Interim Committee for Sri Lanka Cricket, the officials' names were changed in the SLC main hall Board (Photo: Manjula Basnayake Twitter @BasnayakeM)