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Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe's UNP welcomes PM Modi's visit...
The UNP said the visit presents an opportunity to strengthen the “India-Sri Lanka Economic Partnership Vision” adopted in July 2023.
Sri Lanka’s plantation workers live on the margins. But politicians...
19 Sept 2024 12:45 AMBoth leading candidates in Saturday’s presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of plantation workers,...
Lanka prez Wickremesinghe promises commission to address missing...
14 Sept 2024 4:00 PMThe Sri Lankan government is yet to fully restore civilian ownership of land and property nearly a decade since the end of the civil war in 2009.
Former Sri Lanka president Sirisena settles compensation for Easter...
21 Aug 2024 8:30 AMSirisena, 72, was ordered by the Supreme Court to pay SLRs 100 million as compensation to victims for his negligence in preventing the country’s one...
Wickremesinghe backed by grand alliance of over 30 parties in Sri...
16 Aug 2024 2:00 PMThis comes after Wickremesinghe, 75, announced himself as the independent candidate on Thursday by handing over nominations to contest the September...
Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe hints at tax proposals’...
14 Aug 2024 11:51 AMSri Lanka is currently in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has made external debt restructuring conditional to the USD...
Rajapaksas officially ditch Wickremesinghe, youngest heir announced as...
7 Aug 2024 12:30 PMThe Rajapaksas – Mahinda, Basil and Gotabaya – were instrumental in Wickremesinghe winning the parliamentary vote in July 2022 to take over Gotabaya’s...
President Wickremesinghe officially announces candidacy for Sri Lankan...
27 July 2024 3:16 PMWickremesinghe was then appointed president through parliament with support coming from Rajapaksa’s SLPP.