Sri Lanka to hold presidential election between Sept 17 and Oct 16: Election CommissionSri Lanka will hold presidential election between September 17 and October 16, the country's top electoral body announced on Thursday. In a...
09 May, 2024, 03.08 PM IST
Sri Lanka introduces bill to clip presidential powersIf passed into law, the amendments would reinstate democratic reforms made in 2015. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was ousted as president by angr...
10 Aug, 2022, 05.31 PM IST
Sri Lankan Cabinet ministers to resign after all-party government formation: PMOSri Lanka's entire Cabinet of ministers on Monday agreed to resign once an agreement is reached on the formation of an all-party interim go...
11 Jul, 2022, 03.44 PM IST
Sri Lankan Cabinet defers 21st Amendment to the Constitution by a weekThe 21st Amendment is expected to annul the 20A to the Constitution which gives unfettered powers to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after abo...
07 Jun, 2022, 11.01 AM IST
China becomes wild card in Sri Lanka's raging debt crisisSri Lanka's struggle is extreme, but it reflects conditions across dozens of countries from South Pacific islands through some of the poore...
21 May, 2022, 05.44 PM 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
Govt plans to set up 17 more airports in UP: Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya ScindiaTo boost connectivity of airways, he said, "The government has decided to operate direct flights from Delhi airport to Kushinagar airport f...
20 Oct, 2021, 11.14 AM IST
PM visit to Kushinagar: Buddha relics from Sri Lanka to be accorded state guest-like statusPrime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday inaugurate the Kushinagar International Airport, which is an endeavour to connect Buddhist p...
19 Oct, 2021, 02.26 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate Kushinagar International Airport, launch development projectsThe inauguration of the Kushinagar International Airport will be marked by the landing of the inaugural flight at the airport from Colombo,...
19 Oct, 2021, 12.00 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to have packed schedule of foreign tours from next monthBesides Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to travel to the US, Israel, Russia, Germany, Spain and Kazakshstan.
19 Apr, 2017, 06.38 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka in MayPrime Minister Modi will make his second visit to Sri Lanka in the second week of May, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said.
19 Apr, 2017, 05.23 PM IST
Sri Lanka to free 20 LTTE suspects"Earlier, 39 suspects, detained on terrorism charges, were released on strong bail conditions," Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said.
26 Nov, 2015, 04.32 PM IST
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to visit Mauritius, Maldives over the weekendMauritius has been one of biggest sources of FDI into India, which attracted inflows of $77.77 bn FDI between April 2000 & Jan 2014.
31 Oct, 2014, 08.29 PM IST
India to step up military ties with Sri Lanka and MaldivesArun Jaitley held a meeting with visiting Lankan defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakshe, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
21 Oct, 2014, 11.47 AM IST