Sri Lanka President Sirisena extends emergency by month
Colombo | Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday extended by a month the state of emergency imposed in the wake of the deadly Easter Sunday...
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Over 130 IS linked suspects are in Sri Lanka: Sirisena
Colombo: Over 130 suspects linked to the Islamic State (IS) terror group have been operating in Sri Lanka, President Maithripala Sirisena said Friday, days after the...
Sri Lanka Easter attack leader Zahran Hashim died in hotel bombing: Sirisena
Colombo | Sri Lankan Islamist extremist Zahran Hashim, said to be the top leader of an IS linked local militant group that carried out the...
Sri Lanka: President Sirisena says opposed to forming national govt
Colombo | Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday said he is opposed to forming a national government only to expand the Cabinet of ministers,...
Lanka Prez Sirisena meets party organisers, hints 2019 may be election year
Colombo | Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has held a meeting with his party’s electoral organisers, fuelling speculation that the SLPF Chairman, who was recently at...
Blow to Sirisena as Lankan Parliament adopts confidence motion on ousted PM Wickremesinghe
Colombo| Sri Lanka’s ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe emphatically proved his majority in Parliament on Wednesday, weeks after being sacked by President Maithripala Sirisena in a...
Sirisena describes ongoing Lankan crisis as one between foreign and indigenous thinking
Colombo | Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has described the ongoing political crisis in the country as one between foreign and local values. “This is an...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to pen a book on current political crisis
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Maithripala Sirisena, addressing a public gathering on Friday, said the book will be titled ‘My unsuccessful political marriage with Ranil’. Colombo| Sri Lankan President Maithripala...
Tamil Nadu parties slam Sirisena for dissolution of Lankan Parliament
Chennai | Tamil Nadu political parties, including the main opposition DMK Saturday termed the dissolution of the Sri Lankan Parliament as “murder of democracy”. They also...
US says tracking situation ‘very closely’ after Sri Lanka President Sirisena dissolves Parliament
Washington | The United States Saturday said it was tracking the situation “very closely” after Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved Parliament, with the White House...