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India-Sri Lanka oil pipeline discussed during VP Radhakrishnan's meeting with Dissanayake: Foreign Secretary Vikram MisriIndia and Sri Lanka initiated conversations about a new oil pipeline, aiming to enhance energy cooperation. They also delved into topics li...
Sri Lankan Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa backs India's bid for permanent UNSC seatSri Lanka's Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa backs India's bid for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat. He calls it a recogn...
PM Modi meets Sri Lanka's Opposition leader Premadasa, appreciates his commitment to strengthening tiesPrime Minister Modi met Sri Lanka's Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa, and praised his efforts to strengthen India-Sri Lanka ties....
Buoyed by house majority, Lankan President to seek Indian support to boost economyAnura Kumara Dissanayake's party secured a majority in the Sri Lankan Parliament, bolstering his reform agenda for economic revival and str...
India, Sri Lanka commission maritime rescue centre to boost security tiesSri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC...
Sri Lanka's presidential election first, parliamentary polls later: President WickremesinghePresident Ranil Wickremesinghe confirms the scheduling of the presidential election before the parliamentary election, in line with the Ele...
ICC lifts ban on Sri Lanka CricketThe International Cricket Council (ICC) lifted the ban on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) after they were suspended for violating ICC Member respon...
ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership with immediate effectThe International Cricket Council (ICC) Board has suspended Sri Lanka Cricket's membership with immediate effect, citing serious breaches o...
Sri Lankan opposition leader Sajith Premadasa drops out of presidential race as protests planned"For the greater good of my country that I love and the people I cherish, I hereby withdraw my candidacy for the position of president," Pr...
Sri Lanka's LoP Sajith Premadasa raises concern over Presidential polls, says "Parliament doesn't represent majority opinion"In an exclusive interview with ANI, Premadasa said, "Right now, what you have is a Parliament that does not represent the majority opinion ...
Wickremesinghe, Premadasa among four leaders to contest presidential election in Sri LankaSri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, main Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four leaders who have joined the r...
Sri Lankan Parliament to meet to announce president's vacancyFor the first time since 1978, Sri Lanka will elect the crisis-hit country's next president through a secret vote by the MPs and not throug...
Solutions to economic crisis must be found in accordance with people's wishes: Oppn leader to Sri Lanka PMThe economic situation led to huge protests with demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Raj...
Ready to form govt if President resigns within stipulated time period, says Sri Lankan Opposition Leader PremadasaPremadasa said that he has a sustainable programme to control the fall of the economy and for the implementation of the constitutional refo...
Sri Lanka crisis: Talks on to end political impasse after PM Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignationMahinda, 76, resigned as prime minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil in the country, hours after his supporters attacked a...
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...
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...
Lankan opposition leader says working people have to observe 'Black May Day' due to 'reckless' govt policiesThe crisis is caused in part by a lack of foreign currency, which has meant that the country cannot afford to pay for imports of staple foo...
Sri Lanka's main opposition party to move no-confidence motion against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa"We have decided to bring a no confidence motion against Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa as he fails to address the country in conne...
ET GBS 2017: Keep initiative people-centric, say panelistsEnthused by India’s outreach during the Goa summit in 2016, Sri Lanka’s minister, Sajith Premadasa, suggested setting up a BIMSTEC fund for...