Sri Lanka declares state of emergency hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleesAFP quoted Prime Minister's spokesman, Dinouk Colombage, as saying, "Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been decla...
13 Jul, 2022, 01.39 PM IST
Sri Lanka Economic crisis: Protesters camp, cook inside PM's Colombo homeThe ongoing tussle between Sri Lankan citizens and the government of the country took a new turn when a mob of protestors occupied the offi...
11 Jul, 2022, 04.38 PM IST
Will resign on July 13 as previously announced, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa informs PMSri Lanka's President Rajapaksa said he will resign on Wednesday after protesters on Saturday stormed his official residence, calling for h...
11 Jul, 2022, 11.35 AM IST
Unprecedented developments in Sri Lanka were inevitable: Strategic affairs expertsAt the same time, they said the economic situation is unlikely to improve dramatically just because President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has decide...
10 Jul, 2022, 10.07 PM IST
Sri Lankan protestors claim they found 17.85 million rupees inside President Rajapaksa's official residenceHundreds of anti-government protesters on Saturday stormed into Rajapaksa's residence in central Colombo's high-security Fort area after br...
10 Jul, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
Sri Lanka Crisis: End of the political journey of powerful Rajapaksa dynasty?"Gotabaya Rajapaksa may have been the most powerful of the Rajapaksa brothers in terms of popular support and the constitutional capacity h...
10 Jul, 2022, 03.11 PM IST
Sri Lankan Army chief says opportunity to resolve crisis peacefully now available; seeks public support to maintain peaceSri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, is under the grip of an unprecedented economic turmoil, the worst in seven decades, crippled by ...
10 Jul, 2022, 10.17 AM IST
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign on July 13, says Parliament SpeakerPresident Rajapaksa informed the Speaker about this decision to quit after Abeywardena wrote to him seeking his resignation following the a...
10 Jul, 2022, 12.00 AM IST
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says will consider abolition of executive presidency; mum on resignationIn a series of tweets, the President outlined the steps to be taken to end the current political impasse after his elder brother and prime ...
12 May, 2022, 01.15 PM IST
Sri Lanka crisis: Fleeing ex-PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, family take refuge at naval baseRajapaksa, his wife Shiranthi, and their youngest son Rohitha and his family, left the Prime Minister's official residence, Temple Trees, e...
11 May, 2022, 10.38 AM IST
Anger against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, PM spills over on social mediaOn Tuesday, while many local television visuals showed anti-government protesters shouting slogans for the president to resign and also reb...
11 May, 2022, 09.17 AM IST
India backs people’s rights and democratic tradition in Sri LankaIndia has extended support worth over $3.5 billion to the people of Sri Lanka this year alone. India has also provided assistance for mitig...
11 May, 2022, 07.51 AM IST
Protests at Sri Lankan naval base housing ex-PM Mahinda RajapaksaViolence erupted in Sri Lanka on Monday after supporters of then prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attacked peaceful anti-government protest...
10 May, 2022, 04.12 PM IST
Death toll in Sri Lanka violence rises to eightMahinda Rajapaksa, 76, resigned as Sri Lankan Prime Minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil, hours after his supporters atta...
10 May, 2022, 12.36 PM IST
Ancestral home of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksas set on fire in HambantotaVideo footage showed the entire house of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Medam...
10 May, 2022, 10.10 AM IST
Sri Lanka's opposition rejects President Rajapaksa's offer to form interim governmentRajapaksa had called over the telephone both Premadasa and Harsha de Silva, the SJB economic guru, on the prospect of forming an interim go...
08 May, 2022, 12.25 PM IST
Sri Lanka lifts curfew imposed after violent protests outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residenceThe curfew was imposed within the Colombo North, South, Colombo Central, Nugegoda, Mount Lavinia and Kelaniya Police Divisions last night.
01 Apr, 2022, 08.49 AM IST