The Sri Lanka government has declared May 3 and 4 as Wesak days and the period from April 30 to May 6 as Wesak Week.

Jetwing Blue Hotel was the host of the Dimo Jeep launch that was held recently in Negombo.

At yesterday’s (16) second quarterly meeting of the ICC in Dubai, Sri Lanka Cricket representative Nuzki Mohamed has been refused participation, reports say.

Economic development minister of the former government Basil Rajapaksa, who left the country soon after the conclusion of the presidential election, is due to return on April 21, reports say.

Sri Lanka’s economic growth will decline to 6.9 per cent in 2015, the World Bank says.

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has no intention at all of fielding a group outside the UPFA at the upcoming general election, and his aim is to ensure that a majority of MPs loyal to him are elected to parliament, said a SLFP MP who visited him at his Carlton home in Tangalle yesterday (16).