The Cyclonic storm ”AMPHAN” ( pronounced as UM-PUN) over south east Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood, has intensified into a Severe Cyclonic Storm and lay centred at  08.30 a.m. of (17th) near latitude 11.4°N and longitude 86.0°E, about 610 km North-east of Trincomalee. It is very likely to intensify further into a Very Severe Cyclonic  Storm during next 12 hours. It is very likely to move North wards during next 24 hours and then re-curve north-northeastwards towards west Bengal coast during 20th May.

HISTORIC PROMOTION OF 14,617 ARMY OTHER RANKS COINCIDES WITH NATIONAL WAR HEROES’ DAY

ALL SET TO PAY TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF VALIANT WAR HEROES ON ‘NATIONAL WAR HEROES’ DAY’

Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has called on migrant workers as well as students and parents, to carefully calibrate the effect repatriation at this time could have on their jobs and education, before making decisions to seek to return to Sri Lanka, availing of the limited flights being operated by the Government for those facing compelling circumstances.