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Rajapaksas officially ditch Wickremesinghe
COLOMBO: Namal Rajapaksa, the 38-year-old heir to the Rajapaksa dynasty, was on Wednesday named as the SLPP candidate for the presidential election, thus officially ending Rajapaksa family's backing to the incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe.…
Ranil Wickremesinghe to fight presidential election as independent
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday declared his candidacy to contest the presidential election in September as an independent candidate by depositing money to contest the upcoming polls.
Earlier in the day, the…
Japan resumes funding Sri Lanka after debt restructure
COLOMBO: Japan will resume funding stalled infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka, including the expansion of the main international airport, government officials said Wednesday, after the bankrupt island nation successfully restructured its…
Wickremesinghe rules out another salary hike for government employees
Wickremesinghe intends to contest as an independent candidate backed by all political parties who are bent on maintaining the economic reforms programme set in by him.
Sri Lanka releases $39 mn for welfare benefits program
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government disbursed nearly 12 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($39 million) to the bank accounts of people selected as beneficiaries under Aswesuma welfare benefit payment program, the President's Media Division (PMD)…
SL thanks India, key bilateral creditors for finalising $10 billion debt deal
Colombo; With a major move to turn around the country's worst-ever financial crisis, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe thanked India and other key bilateral creditors for finalising a debt restructuring deal valued at a combined…
Sri Lankan cabinet clears proposal to turn military airbase into civil airport
Colombo; Sri Lankan cabinet approved a proposal to make preparations to develop the Hingurakgoda airport in the North Central Province as a complete airport for civilian use, the government's information department said on Tuesday.…
Sri Lankan President thanks India for ‘continued support’
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar for their "continued support" to the island nation.
Wickremesinghe met EAM Jaishankar in…
Sri Lankan cabinet calls for probe into recent floods, which killed 17
Colombo: Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers, on Tuesday, authorised the investigation of the cause of the recent floods, which left 17 dead and thousands displaced as heavy rains and strong winds lashed out across many parts of the country.…
Foreign policy under Modi 3.0 will be crucial for the entire region: Lankan experts
Colombo: As India has completed its elections and results are out, foreign policy experts and academics have viewed the results as proof of India’s strong democracy while the re-election of Prime Minister Modi’s government is proof of…