Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's office on February 1 said that his government has decided to run the Colombo Port's Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) as a fully-owned operation of the state-run ports authority

Mahinda Rajapaksa completed 50 years of parliamentary politics in July this year. He was elected as a Member of Parliament at the young age of 24 in 1970. He has since been elected President twice and has been appointed Prime Minister thrice

Earlier, on July 14, Deputy High Commissioner Vinod K. Jacob had met and discussed the currency swap arrangement with the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Prof. W.D. Lakshman

PM Modi Sri Lanka visit: PM Modi and his Sri Lankan coounterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa held bilateral talks. The main topics that were reportedly covered in this bilateral were defence and security

'Cowardly acts of terror cannot defeat the spirit of Sri Lanka', said PM Modi