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Having rushed to welcome the new President Dr Waheed, India is working hard behind the scenes to ensure a peaceful transition, and has asked the new regime to ensure safety of ex-President Mohamed Nasheed, after an arrest warrant was put out for him on Thursday evening.

President Mahinda Rajapaksha will be visiting Pakistan on a state visit from 10-12 of February, 2012, at the invitation of Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari.

The president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed resigned on Tuesday and was replaced by his vice president, after the police and army clashed in the streets of the island nation, amid protests over the arrest of a top judge.

Under Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Global Affairs, a close colleague of Secretary Hillary Clinton and onetime top official of the Clinton administration, Maria Otero will be in Sri Lanka February 12-14 for top-level official talks with the government.

The United States' Global war crimes investigator Ambassador Stephen Rapp, head of the State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice, will be in Sri Lanka this week to engage in high level talks with the government on the determinations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, applicability of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to the 2009 final battle with Tamil Tigers, and accountability of GSL military forces in the final months of the battle.

We have to give the rural people who comprises 80% of our population the results of giant development works we have initiated in the country. It is not only an expectation but also a challenge which we are ready to take up, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

In a major development having implications for the corporate sector, the Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled the 122 2G spectrum licences granted by former telecom minister A Raja on the ground that they were issued in a "totally arbitrary and unconstitutional" manner.

To know that most probably Ceylon was Thomas More’s ‘dream island’ in mind when he wrote his Utopia in 1516 should undoubtedly be an inspiration for the socialist minded people in Sri Lanka both in the South and in the North.

India and Thailand on Wednesday discussed strengthening of cooperation in strategic fields and inked six pacts in key areas including defence, security and economy.