Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered the release of all the Tamil civilian lands held by the state in the country’s Northern and Eastern...
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25th Sep 2023 | Updated at 03:06am 25th Sep 2023
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.
US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American nuclear expert Rita Baranwal to head the nuclear energy division at the department of energy
Mystery surrounds the death of a Suffolk businessman who died while on a holiday in Sri Lanka - as an inquest revealed experts are only 80% sure the body discovered was actually his
Sri Lanka has decided against giving control of Palaly Airport to India just days after the state-run Airport Authority of India made a move to develop...
In a public speech delivered last week, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa reached out to the Tamil community and said that the war of 2009 was against terrorism of LTTE and not against the community
In a public speech delivered last week, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa reached out to the Tamil community and said that the war of 2009...
Sri Lanka's president should suspend military and police officers implicated in the disappearance of thousands of civilians during the island's decades-long...
A US Navy veteran was awarded three consecutive life sentences on federal hate crime charges for killing Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounding two others at a Kansas City bar last year.
Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that reconciliation was build up gradually with the movement of Southern people to the North and Northern people to the South
Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered Sri Lanka a fresh grant of 2 billion yuan ($295 million), as Beijing tries to expand its influence in the tiny...
