Sri Lanka has restored an online visa application platform to encourage tourism after its top court suspended a controversial multimillion-dollar deal that outsourced visa processing to a foreign consortium. The government of newly elected President...
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21st Dec 2024 | Updated at 07:21am 21st Dec 2024
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising "clean" politics as the country recovers from its worst economic crisis.
A hardline Tamil nationalist party has launched a campaign to boycott the Sept 21 presidential election, saying that no major candidate has pledged for the federal set-up for political autonomy for Tamils in the north and east of the country,...
The Sri Lankan government has announced visa-free access for citizens of 35 countries, including India, for six months
A son of Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will contest the upcoming presidential election which will be held as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.
Dr P Raghu Ram, President of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) and Director of KIMS - Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases was conferred with the Honorary Fellowship of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka (Hon. FCSSL) during the virtual...
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system...
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different...
Sri Lanka will work with India and it won’t do anything that will harm its interests, newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said ahead of his visit...
- 20 Nov 2019
Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sworn in his brother and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister. Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
