TNA will gain political mileage out of its support to shaky government: Rajapaksa
Colombo | Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party TNA should not be allowed to achieve through its support to prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government what it could...
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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...
Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister
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Colombo | Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was appointed as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister by President Maithripala Sirisena in a controversial move, resigned on Saturday as two...
Lanka SC upholds restraining court order against Rajapaksa from acting as PM
Colombo | Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a court order restraining Mahinda Rajapaksa from holding the office of Prime Minister until it fully heard...
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...
Sri Lanka Parliament bars Rajapaksa from using state funds
Colombo | Sri Lankan Parliament Thursday overwhelmingly passed a motion to suspend the expenditure of the Prime Minister’s Office, dealing a major blow to strongman Mahinda...
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...
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s opponents win control of key panel in Sri Lankan Parliament
Colombo | Ousted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe’s alliance on Friday won control of a powerful panel in Parliament, dealing a major blow to President...
Lankan MPs seek suspension of state funds allocated to Rajapaksa
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The Parliament, which was convened Monday for a third-floor test against Rajapaksa, was adjourned just 10 minutes after its opening. Colombo| Sri Lankan lawmakers have...
Sri Lankan Parliament disrupted again, adjourned until Monday amid political crisis
Colombo | Rival Sri Lankan lawmakers threw chilli powder and furniture at each other and disrupted the proceedings of Parliament for a second day Friday, forcing...