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 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 PM Mahinda Rajapaksa proposes to amend Constitution to create accountable administration"The Prime Minister is expected to propose to the Cabinet a Constitutional Amendment that would include the Executive, Judiciary and the Le...
19 Apr, 2022, 11.14 AM IST
Letter to Xi: Lankan MP accuses Beijing of pushing Colombo into debt trapThe letter alleged that the Chinese friendship was no longer genuine and candid, and that Beijing was dismantling peace in the region by ma...
08 Jan, 2022, 07.08 AM IST
After landslide victory, Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as Sri Lankan Prime MinisterThe 74-year-old Sri Lanka People's Party (SLPP) leader was administered the oath of office for the ninth Parliament by his younger brother ...
09 Aug, 2020, 10.54 AM IST
India's Buddhist outreach: International Airport at Kushinagar for Buddhist pilgrimsModi spoke to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, and congratulated him on the successful conduct of parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka. Pr...
06 Aug, 2020, 11.09 PM IST
India heeded his request not to seek joint venture to run Mattala airport: Sri Lanka PM Mahinda RajapaksaThe USD 210 million facility, 241km south-east of Colombo, is dubbed the "world's emptiest airport" due to a lack of flights.
10 Jul, 2020, 07.43 PM IST
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar meets Sri Lankan PM Mahinda RajapaksaMahinda Rajapaksa, elder brother of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, arrived here on Friday on a five-day trip, his first overseas ...
08 Feb, 2020, 01.12 PM IST
'I will remain Lankan PM, naming Rajapaksa unconstitutional': Ranil WickremesingheIn a telephonic conversation with a TV station, Ranil Wickremesinghe said "I will continue to be the Prime Minister. Mahinda Rajapaksa's ap...
26 Oct, 2018, 10.19 PM IST
Mahinda Rajapaksa will be defeated again: Sri Lankan President Maithripala SirisenaSirisena said he never supported Rajapaksa's nomination for the August elections and that his predecessor will lose again.
14 Jul, 2015, 11.01 PM IST
Former Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa fears prosecution of entire family by new governmentFormer Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressed fears that the new government led by Maithripala Sirisena might end up prosecuting his ...
24 Apr, 2015, 04.39 PM IST
Mahinda Rajapaksa agrees to step down as party bossAfter winning the election, Sirisena claimed the party leadership even as Rajapaksa's loyalists initially refused to back him, threatening ...
15 Jan, 2015, 04.04 PM IST
5 Indian fishermen released in Sri Lanka after presidential pardonIndia on November 11 had filed an appeal in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka against a verdict of the high court awarding death sentence to t...
19 Nov, 2014, 08.07 PM IST
Narendra Modi should avoid presence of Lankan President at swearing-in:VaikoVaiko, who wrote a letter to Modi, expressing his sadness about the invitation being extended to Rajapaksa, said he had requested Rajnath t...
23 May, 2014, 01.18 PM IST
Narendra Modi's invite to Nawaz Sharif & Mahinda Rajapaksa under political fireNarendra Modi's move to invite Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has aroused political backlash.
22 May, 2014, 12.46 PM IST