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After calling on Lankan Prez & PM, Jaishankar meets top Tamil leaders
Jaishankar later met Sri Lanka’s top Tamil leaders and discussed the realisation of the aspirations of the minority community for equality, justice,...
Lanka crisis: PM Mahinda Rajapaksa may offer resignation today
9 May 2022 6:28 AMRajapaksa, 76, under intense pressure from within his own Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) ranks to resign was gathering his supporters to apply...
Sri Lanka crisis: Defence Ministry orders tri-forces to open fire on...
10 May 2022 2:46 PMNearly 250 people have been injured in the violence in Colombo and other parts of the country.
Too little, too late
10 May 2022 7:29 PMThe resignation came close on the heels of his brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, declaring an emergency; it was also announced after bloody...
India ‘categorically’ denies reports of sending troops to Sri Lanka
11 May 2022 7:48 AMSri Lanka is struggling with acute food and electricity shortages, forcing the country to seek help from its neighbours. The economic situation has...
SL court bans ex-PM Rajapaksa, son & 14 others from leaving country
12 May 2022 10:33 AMThe pro-Rajapaksa supporters, who protested against Rajapaska leaving his post were later armed with clubs, poles and iron bars, had attacked the...
Lankans run out of food, fuel, medicines
13 May 2022 8:48 PMThe economy got battered by the Covid pandemic which wrecked the tourism industry — a key revenue generator for the country — and hit other major...
SL PM assures parliament of sufficient fuel stocks till mid-June
19 May 2022 11:11 AMThe new Sri Lankan PM stressed that the stocks of fuel will reduce the long queues at the fuel stations, however, stressing that "the queues for fuel...