High Commission of Sri Lanka in India

Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda today (22) visited the headquarters of the global Information Technology giant HCL Technologies in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 50-acre campus houses 25,000 employees. 

High Commissioner Moragoda, accompanied by the senior High Commission officials, met with the Company's Chief Financial Officer Prateek Aggarwal and his senior management team, and discussed extensively on the investments that the HCL Technologies have made in Sri Lanka, and the ways and means to further expand those investments. 

Further strengthening people-to-people ties with India, the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi today (15) presented a Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran to the Jama Masjid of Delhi for permanent display at the historical mosque built by legendary Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

The impressive Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran, published by the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) of Sri Lanka, was presented to the Chief Imam of India and Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid of Delhi Syed Ahmed Bukhari this morning by Sri Lanka's High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda. The copy of the Holy Quran, fixed inside a transparent display box, was placed at a prominent place in the mosque. 

Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda sought avenues of further strengthening the cooperation in the civil aviation sector with India, when he met the Civil Aviation Minister of India Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia in New Delhi, today (12).  

Minister Scindia accorded a warm welcome to High Commissioner Moragoda. The High Commissioner thanked the Minister for the hospitality, and the excellent arrangements that were in place for the Sri Lankan delegation that arrived in India for the opening of the Kushinagar International Airport in the inaugural flight from Colombo. Minister Scindia thanked Sri Lanka for this gesture and said that the opening ceremony was enriched by the presence of the Sri Lankan delegation.   

Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe on Wednesday (10) to discuss the ways and means to further strengthen cultural cooperation between Sri Lanka and India.  Director General of the ICCR Ambassador Dinesh K. Patnaik was also present at the meeting.