India's desire to give some breathing space to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe found a sympathetic ear in the international community
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21st Nov 2024 | Updated at 07:21am 21st Nov 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.
Indian-origin presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’ town hall on CNN got the network its highest ratings ever for such an event with an individual election candidate, according to the network
Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena said he was opposed to the efforts being made by the UNP to form a national government
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Sri Lanka’s prime minister said the country was struggling to pay back its ballooning foreign debt, blaming a recent political crisis for dealing a “death...
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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said the country's current political crisis is a result of a clash between external and local values, as he accused...
Srilanka has been gripped in a political battle for over a month, ever since President Maithripala Sirisena replaced Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka's Court of Appeal on Monday accepted a legal challenge against newly-appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet, deepening the...
- 21 Nov 2018
Sri Lanka's parliament was adjourned after just 10 minutes on Monday after opening for the first time since MPs brawled and threw objects at each other...
