Over 3,000 Tamil Nadu fishermen chased away by Sri Lankan navy
Rameswaram | Over 3,000 Tamil Nadu fishermen were allegedly chased away by Sri Lankan Naval personnel Saturday for fishing near Katchatheevu islet, a senior fisheries department...
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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...
UN Secretary General welcomes resolution of political crisis in Sri Lanka
United Nations | UN chief Antonio Guterres has welcomed the resolution of the political crisis in Sri Lanka and called on all the political actors to...
Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as Sri Lanka’s PM
Colombo | United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Sunday, ending a 51-day power tussle in...
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...
Wickremesinghe likely to take oath as Sri Lanka’s PM on Sunday
Colombo | Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to take oath as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister on Sunday after disputed Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign on Saturday, signaling...
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...
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 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...