A Sri Lankan court has banned the feared brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa from foreign travel, police said on Tuesday, over allegations he used a commercial floating armoury as weaponry for a "private army"
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
. The recovery of a weapons cache in central Colombo has added fuel to allegations that former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa had planned a coup to maintain his grip on power when he realised that he was about to lose the recent election
The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister has already visited New Delhi and spoken to the External Affairs Minister and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who expressed...
Hahinda Rajapaksa's defeat in the Presidential elections was followed by the news that he had attempted a coup as the results poured in, predicting his...
In a stunning election result that was unthinkable just weeks ago, Sri Lanka's longtime president Mahinda Rajapaska has been defeated by his onetime political...
The Sri Lankan President said his rival, opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena, is a stranger to northerners whilst he as President had done much to...
Under pressure from his main rival in the upcoming polls, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised a fresh “transparent” judicial probe into allegations...
Colombo: Five Indian fishermen were given death penalty by a Sri Lankan court for alleged drug trafficking, prompting a response from India that it will...
Colombo: A deadly landslide, triggered by heavy rains, wiped out the homes of mostly Indian-origin tea plantation workers at Meeriabedda tea estate in...
Following are major events during the year 2014
