Sri Lanka's economy is expected to grow again from the end of this year and the government hopes to extricate the country from its economic crisis by 2026, President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on Wednesday (8)
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s plan to fully implement India-backed 13th Amendment to grant political autonomy to the minority Tamils received a blow on Thursday (2) as the powerful Buddhist clergy expressed strong opposition…
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday (10) said Sri Lanka does not need outside intervention in its internal affairs, as he invited the country’s Tamil minority parties to hold talks next week to resolve some of the outstanding issues…
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Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe Thursday (8) offered his "deepest condolences" over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of the former British colony for the first two decades of her reign
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Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is seeking to return home from his exile in Thailand and has asked his successor to guarantee his safety, his party announced Friday (19)
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Sri Lanka’s political crisis looks likely to continue this week after the ruling party decided to nominate the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, as its candidate to be the next president
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Going beyond obtaining the exit of all Rajapaksas from power centres, the public protests are also aimed at creating a new political culture, a new political leadership, and a new way of political thinking and administration. Thus far, the…
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That the newly installed PM had neither proven parliamentary majority nor constitutional authority is perhaps an inconvenient detail. But the biggest loser was democratic polity with the vast majority of people losing faith not only in the…
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Now that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Cabinet has taken some substantial if not final shape, the question arises as to whether the old wine in an older bottle or bottles tastes matured or sour
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USAID Administrator Samantha Power spoke with newly appointed Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday (23), and reiterated “her support to the people of Sri Lanka”
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