US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal, currently on her sixth visit in 20 months to Sri Lanka in her current capacity as US Assistant Secretary of State responsible for South and Central Asian Affairs, speaking to a group of senior business leaders at GFH Colombo on Wednesday said former Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew wanted to turn Singapore into a Ceylon. Conflicts reversed the fortunes for Sri Lanka, but now it is time to make Sri Lanka the next Singapore.

The Constitutional Council (CC) has turned down a request for increasing the salary of Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe, parliament sources said yesterday.

At least 57 people, most of them students, were hospitalised after a swarm of wasps attacked a school in Sri Lanka on Thursday, sources from the school and a health centre said.

The construction of one of Sri Lanka’s most controversial projects, Krrish Square Tower by Indian investors has finally begun on the US$ 650 million mixed development project at the 4.3 acre Transworks Building site in Fort.

Six years since its official entrance to the world of photography, CameraLK has evolved into the largest free-standing Camera Showroom in whole of South Asia.