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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa likely to resign this week, local media saysPrime Minister Rajapaksa will brief the local council members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and then, later on, he will announc...
08 May, 2022, 11.13 PM IST
Sri Lanka coronavirus prison riot leaves 8 dead, over 50 woundedThe incident comes as pandemic-related unrest has been growing in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons. Inmates have staged protests in recent w...
30 Nov, 2020, 01.29 PM IST
Sri Lanka crisis: Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign from premiership on Saturday, says sonRajapaksa was appointed as the premier on October 26 by President Maithripala Sirisena after sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe, plunging the nat...
14 Dec, 2018, 08.19 PM IST
India to help in evacuating Sri Lankans from YemenIndia has acceded to Sri Lanka's request to evacuate stranded Sri Lankans along with Indian nationals from strife-torn Yemen, the Foreign M...
02 Apr, 2015, 12.20 PM IST
LTTE could regroup, warns Sri Lankan ministerDeputy Foreign Minister said LTTE's front organisations operate businesses overseas to generate funds in an attempt to revive the outfit.
30 Mar, 2015, 06.33 PM IST
Sri Lankan government holds up Beijing-funded $1.5 billion Colombo port city project“The Lankan cabinet has decided to temporarily suspend with immediate effect the work in the port city project," Cabinet spokesman Rajith S...
06 Mar, 2015, 05.35 AM IST
Sri Lanka to probe claims Rajapaksa government's tried to pay US lawmakersWickremesinghe said if institutions based in the US had paid Congressmen then under US law the Congressmen need to declare for what the mon...
04 Mar, 2015, 07.00 PM IST
New Sri Lanka govt looks to improve rights recordFollowing new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's assertion that his government would get the country's human rights house in order, sepa...
25 Jan, 2015, 03.19 PM IST
New Lanka government treats ties with India on priority: Minister Ajith P PereraOn the eve of its Foreign Minister's visit to India, Sri Lanka today said good relations with India were a priority and it hopes to take bi...
17 Jan, 2015, 03.05 PM IST