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...
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24th Apr 2025 | Updated at 09:39am 24th Apr 2025
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.
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...
- 03 Jul 2018
Sri Lanka has announced that it is shifting a naval base to a port built and controlled by China, in a move that will strengthen security at a harbour...
Sri Lanka's ruling United National Party, called for setting up of a presidential commission to investigate the alleged Chinese funding of former President...
In an innovative step towards strengthening military ties, India hosted a 160-member delegation comprising Sri Lankan military personnel and their families...
The screening of the biopic 'Making of a Mahatma' marked the opening of a three-days of events to commemorate the historic incident 125 years ago when...
The International Monetary Fund announced the release of the latest instalment of Sri Lanka's USD 1.5 billion bailout, but warned that restructuring the...
