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Sri Lankan parties agree to form all-party interim government after President Rajapaksa's resignationThe meeting of the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) and its constituent parties will be attended by leader of the Opposition Sa...- 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) ...
- Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invites independent MPs to discuss economic crisisLast week the entire Sri Lankan cabinet resigned apart from Mahinda at a time when the country was facing its worst economic crisis since g...
- Talks between Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaka and independent MPs inconclusive on interim governmentThe President has defended his government's actions, saying the foreign exchange crisis was not his making and the economic downturn was la...
- Sri Lanka's political crisis should end with snap election: Nanayakkara"This government cannot move forward now. There must be a government with everyone participating for at least 6 months and then have an ele...
- Sri Lanka hikes rates as economy risks collapseOfficial data shows Sri Lanka needs nearly $7 billion to service its foreign debt this year, but the country's external reserves at the end...
- Sri Lanka's ‘India First Policy’: Dinner diplomacy to strengthen Delhi, Colombo tiesPeople in the know told ET that Sri Lanka is set to add dynamism to the equation by deputing Asoka Milinda Moragoda, politician-cum-busines...
- Sri Lanka's Parliament passes no-confidence vote against Prime Minister RajapaksaA majority of the 225-member assembly supported the no-confidence motion against Rajapaksa, who was appointed by President Sirisena as prim...
- Mahinda Rajapaksa's allies to form new Lanka opposition alliance"We are looking to form a new political front. We are having talks with different groups," Tissa Vitharana of the Trotskyist Lanka Samasama...
- Sri Lanka talks over Mahinda Rajapaksa's political comeback failsRajapaksa, 69, who lost to Sirisena in the January presidential election, publicly announced yesterday that he wanted to lead an opposition...
- Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena slammed for nod to Tamil version of national anthemHowever, former languages minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara said there was no harm to allow a Tamil version of the national anthem.
- Allies want Mahinda Rajapaksa to lead coalition in the parliamentary electionsMahinda Rajapaksa, 69, has shunned politics since his defeat despite demands from supporters to make a comeback.
- Sri Lanka scraps Tamil version of its national anthemSri Lanka has scrapped the Tamil version of its national anthem at official and state functions, a move likely to further alienate the ethn...
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