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
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 Lanka on the boil, demand for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation intensifies as protest enters 50th daySri Lanka's economic crisis has created political unrest with a protest occupying the entrance to the president's office demanding his resi...
28 May, 2022, 08.43 PM IST
Protest seeking resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa enters 50th day; organisers to intensify agitationSri Lanka is near bankruptcy and has severe shortages of essentials from food, fuel, medicines and cooking gas to toilet paper and matchsti...
28 May, 2022, 12.45 PM IST
Sri Lanka's controversial 21st Amendment to Constitution likely to come up for Cabinet approval on Monday: Justice MinisterThe 21st Amendment is expected to annul the 20A which gave unfettered powers to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after abolishing the 19th Amen...
22 May, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's Cabinet convenes crucial Parliament sessionThe Parliament session began with mourning the murder of ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) lawmaker Amarakeerthi Athukorala, who wa...
17 May, 2022, 12.43 PM IST
Sri Lanka's economic crisis to get worse before it gets better, new PM Wickremesinghe saysThe United National Party (UNP) leader was sworn-in by embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday, but his appointment has largely ...
13 May, 2022, 09.52 PM IST
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resignsThe violence occurred as pressure mounted on the embattled government led by his younger brother and President Gotabaya to form an interim ...
09 May, 2022, 05.44 PM IST
Sri Lanka imposes nationwide curfew; deploys army in ColomboThe violence occurred following reports that Mahinda Rajapaksa may offer to stand down as Prime Minister, as pressure mounted on the embatt...
09 May, 2022, 03.34 PM IST
Lanka crisis: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa may offer resignation todayThousands of demonstrators have hit the streets across Sri Lanka since April 9, as the government ran out of money for vital imports; price...
09 May, 2022, 11.45 AM IST
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya asks parties to show majority for interim govt proposalIn the recent weeks, the powerful Buddhist clergy, civil society and trade chambers have demanded the formation of an interim government to...
29 Apr, 2022, 04.31 PM IST
Will participate in meeting only in absence of PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and Cabinet: Sri Lankan political leaders"We will be going for the meeting but under one condition that it has to be without the presence of the prime minister (Mahinda Rajapaksa) ...
28 Apr, 2022, 08.50 PM IST
Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa says he won't resign; claims no rift with Prez Gotabaya RajapaksaSri Lanka is currently in the throes of an unprecedented economic turmoil since its independence from Britain in 1948. The crisis is caused...
27 Apr, 2022, 09.23 PM IST
Sri Lanka Central Bank Governor quits amid mounting economic woesAccording to the Central Bank estimates, inflation and prices of essentials have surged to 17.5 per cent in February this year, and are exp...
04 Apr, 2022, 01.42 PM IST