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...
07 Mar, 2024, 03.05 PM IST
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...
09 Jul, 2023, 02.04 PM IST
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...
24 Aug, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
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 ...
10 Aug, 2022, 03.40 PM IST
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...
19 Jul, 2022, 11.48 AM IST
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.
17 Jul, 2022, 02.11 PM IST
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...
13 Jul, 2022, 10.36 AM IST
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...
12 Jul, 2022, 11.16 AM IST
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 - ...
19 May, 2022, 03.09 PM IST
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...
10 May, 2022, 04.12 PM IST
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...
10 May, 2022, 12.36 PM IST
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 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...
27 Apr, 2022, 10.39 AM IST
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...
17 Apr, 2022, 02.53 PM IST
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...
16 Apr, 2022, 11.22 AM IST
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...
02 Apr, 2022, 02.08 PM IST
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...
18 Nov, 2019, 11.12 AM IST