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Economy on centre stage, as Sri Lanka set to vote today in first polls since 2022 crisisSri Lanka is set for its first elections since the 2022 economic crisis, with the economy as the central issue. Incumbent President Ranil W...- Rajapaksas officially ditch Wickremesinghe, youngest heir announced as candidate for Lanka presidencyNamal Rajapaksa, 38, has been named the SLPP presidential candidate, ending the Rajapaksa family's support for incumbent Ranil Wickremesing...
- ET Graphics: A disturbed Indian neighbourhoodFormer PM Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after a four-year exile, with his brother Shahbaz Sharif taking office as Prime Minister. Imran...
- Gotabaya Rajapaksha hints India insisted on his continuation as Sri Lanka's President in 2022Rajapaksa was forced into temporary exile after protesters stormed his official residence in 2022, following months of street protests over...
- Sri Lanka marks first anniversary of July 9 people's uprisingSri Lanka on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the historical people's uprising against the previous government's mismanagement of the...
- Sri Lanka bans import of 300 items of consumer goods to stabilise economyThe worsening forex crisis caused essential items shortages triggering massive public protests in the street since early this year that led...
- Sri Lanka's anti-govt protest that ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ends after 123 days of massive uprisingThe protestors came under pressure to quit the site after former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected by Parliament to complete ...
- 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 protest movement reaches 100 daysGotabaya Rajapaksa fled his palace shortly before demonstrators invaded it last weekend and on Thursday resigned from the presidency.
- Key members of Sri Lanka's ruling party want PM Ranil Wickremesinghe as president, no decision yet: SourceThe source said on condition of anonymity that the members met on Tuesday evening and their "overwhelming consensus" was for Wickremesinghe...
- Sri Lanka president's brother stopped from flying out as anger surgesIt was not immediately clear where Rajapaksa, who also holds U.S. citizenship, was trying to go. He resigned as finance minister in early A...
- Lanka police questions more ruling party MPs over violenceFormer Prime Minister Mahinda's House in Kurunegala was also set on fire by protesters while a mob also destroyed D A Rajapaksa Memorial - ...
- Protests at Sri Lankan naval base housing ex-PM Mahinda RajapaksaViolence erupted in Sri Lanka on Monday after supporters of then prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attacked peaceful anti-government protest...
- Death toll in Sri Lanka violence rises to eightMahinda Rajapaksa, 76, resigned as Sri Lankan Prime Minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil, hours after his supporters atta...
- 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...
- Sri Lankan PM rejects calls for resignation; says 'I will go if I lose Parliamentary majority'In an interview with Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror, Rajapaksa said "GoHomeRajapaksa" campaigns are being run by only a certain section of the po...
- Sri Lankan delegation heads to US to seek $4 bn bailout package from IMFThe delegation led by newly-appointed finance minister Ali Sabry will hold talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between April 1...
- Sri Lanka stock exchange to halt for five days from April 18The board of directors of the stock exchange, along with other stakeholders, had sought a temporary closure of the market, the Securities a...
- Tight security in Sri Lanka's capital as shops open after state of emergency orderAngered by shortages of fuel and other essential items, hundreds of protesters on Thursday clashed with police and the military outside Raj...
- Rajapaksas’ pro-China legacy a cause for concern in India?Behind PM Modi's tweet congratulating Gotabaya Rajapaksa on being elected Sri Lanka's new president and Rajapaksa accepting Modi's invite t...
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