In another cross border love blossoming into marriage, a Sri Lankan woman, Shivakumari Vigneshwari 25, came to India to marry her Facebook friend of six years, Laxman, 28. The woman, who came on a tourist visa, married the man from Chittoor district.
#SriLankan #AndhraPradesh #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amaravati/lankan-woman-weds-man-from-chittoor/articleshow/102242277.cms

China’s next overseas military base likely a #SriLankan port, report says

"#China’s military is most likely to build its second overseas naval base in Sri Lanka, according to a new report that studied where Chinese commercial firms have invested most heavily in establishing harbor and port infrastructure to protect international trade in such things as consumer goods exports and imports of oil, grain, and rare earth metals"

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/07/27/chinas-next-overseas-military-base-likely-a-sri-lankan-port-report-says/

How to read a #SriLankan vista:
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/dissimulated-landscapes-postcolonial_jazeel-tariq

President #RanilWickremesinghe will visit #India from July 20-21 at Prime Minister #NarendraModi's invitation: #SriLankan Foreign Ministry

(PTI) #press

#Aircraft is entering the airspace.

Model: Airbus A330 343E
Callsign: #ALK503
Operator: #SriLankan Airlines
Altitude: 40000 ft
First seen above: #Eckelrade
First seen: 2023-07-17 19:29:01
Last seen: 2023-07-17 19:54:03
To: LHR London Heathrow, United Kingdom

#Follow: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=770591

#SriLankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will embark on a two-day visit to #India on July 21 during which he is expected to meet PM #NarendraModi, officials said. This will be his first visit to India since being appointed President of Sri Lanka last year
https://trib.al/J2V0SvN #press

#Opinion | "Becoming the first #SriLankan person to summit Everest threw open doors not only for me, but also for hundreds of women and girls in Sri Lanka"

✍ @jayfemrock | #HTPremium

https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/first-person-choosing-mountains-starting-with-the-everest-101687253678266.html #press

#SriLankan Army Doctors Remove World's Largest #KidneyStone, Set #WorldRecord

https://ground.news/article/worlds-largest-kidney-stone-removed-and-its-the-size-of-a-grapefruit_50573e

President #RanilWickremesinghe on May 1 invited all #SriLankan workers to participate in making the cash-strapped island nation a developed country by 2048 when it will celebrate the centenary of independence from Britain.

https://trib.al/MXZ8Y5I #press

Travel back to Japan from mother country Sri Lanka. From Katunayaka airport to Shinjuku Tokyo https://www.alojapan.com/783664/travel-back-to-japan-from-mother-country-sri-lanka-from-katunayaka-airport-to-shinjuku-tokyo/

#srilankan #travelvlog #srilanka #japan #tojapan

#Japandestinations #Japantour #JapanTravel #japantrip #Japanvacation

Crisp grains of leftover rice, then allow them to soak up a simple and flavorful crab curry of tamarind, coconut milk, and a mix of curry powders in this Sri Lankan-Chinese recipe.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake4z5/crab-fried-rice-recipe
#Recipe #crab #friedrice #rice #Chinese #SriLankan #lunch #dinner #GlutenFree #quick #seafood #coconutmilk #tamarind

Does anybody know a word that sounds like "tab-ije" in Sinhalese? "Well, don't make a tabije of it" - I understand the sense but would like precision of meaning! (Something my great grandmother was known to say - her father spoke Sinhalese).

#sinhalese #srilanka #srilankan

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALP
ICAO: #770590
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 663 kmh
Alt: 12192 m
Dist: 2.9 km
∆: 76.6°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=770590&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-03-12
Seen: 1x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALO
ICAO: #77058F
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 756 kmh
Alt: 12192 m
Dist: 8.9 km
∆: 54.0°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=77058F&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-03-08
Seen: 3x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALR
ICAO: #770592
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 828 kmh
Alt: 11582 m
Dist: 9.0 km
∆: 52.1°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=770592&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-02-22
Seen: 3x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALO
ICAO: #77058F
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 831 kmh
Alt: 12200 m
Dist: 8.2 km
∆: 56.1°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=77058F&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-02-21
Seen: 2x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALL
ICAO: #77058C
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 814 kmh
Alt: 11582 m
Dist: 9.0 km
∆: 52.1°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=77058C&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-02-15
Seen: 2x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

The #SriLankan government responded to peaceful protests with excessive force and used a draconian anti-terror law, the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), to crack down on protestors.

Tell Congress to call for the immediate repeal of the PTA! >>> https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/120944/action/1?ea.tracking.id=akeaik88

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALP
ICAO: #770590
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 787 kmh
Alt: 12192 m
Dist: 7.6 km
∆: 58.2°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=770590&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-02-13
Seen: 1st x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #ALK503
Reg: 4R-ALL
ICAO: #77058C
Callsign: #SRILANKAN
Srilankan Airlines - AIRBUS A330-343E 🇱🇰
#CMB to #LHR
Speed: 836 kmh
Alt: 12192 m
Dist: 10.1 km
∆: 50.3°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=77058C&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-02-12
Seen: 1x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg