China said on Sunday (27) that it has donated 10.6 million litres of diesel to Sri Lankan farmers and fishermen to facilitate their work in the most affected sectors of agriculture and fishery
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Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority parties who had an intra-party discussion following president Ranil Wickremesinghe’s invitation to talks have agreed to put forward a three-point formula, including their push for federalism, a Tamil National…
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Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s controversial announcement that he has no plans to dissolve Parliament anytime soon has found an unlikely champion in former president and Wickremesinghe’s one-time adversary Maithiripala Sirisena
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Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was issued a notice by the Supreme Court on Thursday (24) over a presidential pardon granted by him to a former lawmaker of his party who was convicted in a murder of a party colleague in 2011
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (23) said he will convene an all-party meeting next month to resolve the long held demand for political autonomy for the minority Tamils in the island nation
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At least two front-line ministers in the Sri Lankan government have been suspended by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) for breach of party discipline, it was announced on Tuesday (22)
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Migrant workers who are leaving for foreign jobs without registering or on visit visas are at higher risk of getting into trouble officials said, as a sex-trafficking ring in Oman involving young women from Sri Lanka was uncovered
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Sri Lanka’s former ruling party strategist Basil Rajapaksa returned to the country from the United States in a move what analysts and his close sources see as a move to save the divided nationalist Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and…
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The Sri Lankan government is drafting a new counter-terrorism law to replace the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said on Sunday (20)
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Religious leaders in Sri Lanka have urged the government not to promote the cultivation of cannabis for the sake of making income from export to ease the economic woes of the nation, with Venerable Omalpe Sobitha Thera, urging everyone to…
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