In a major boost to sacked Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Supreme Court in a landmark ruling on Tuesday overturned President Maithripala...
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3rd Dec 2024 | Updated at 12:18pm 3rd 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.
Former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday assumed charge as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister even as the sacked PM Ranil Wickremesinghe asserted that...
India and Sri Lanka agreed to speed up implementation of development projects in the island nation and deepen their “historic ties” during a meeting between...
The Maldives Supreme Court has refused to call secret witnesses and concluded hearing in President Abdulla Yameen’s petition to annul the September 23...
A British couple after a night of partying and alcohol in Sri Lanka made a crazy decision of buying a hotel
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered the release of all the Tamil civilian lands held by the state in the country’s Northern and Eastern...
US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American nuclear expert Rita Baranwal to head the nuclear energy division at the department of energy
Mystery surrounds the death of a Suffolk businessman who died while on a holiday in Sri Lanka - as an inquest revealed experts are only 80% sure the body discovered was actually his
Sri Lanka has decided against giving control of Palaly Airport to India just days after the state-run Airport Authority of India made a move to develop...
In a public speech delivered last week, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa reached out to the Tamil community and said that the war of 2009 was against terrorism of LTTE and not against the community
