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Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested
He has been accused of using state funds to travel to England to attend a convocation ceremony of his wife, Prof Maithree, in September 2023
Katchatheevu for Lanka what Kashmir is for India; won't discuss it: SL...
21 Sept 2024 5:00 AM IST"We don’t discuss our land for boundaries. You don't discuss Kashmir. I don't discuss Katchatheevu," Ranil Wickremesinghe said in an exclusive...
Sri Lanka’s plantation workers live on the margins. But politicians...
19 Sept 2024 6:15 AM ISTBoth 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 9:30 PM ISTThe 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 2:00 PM ISTSirisena, 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 7:30 PM ISTThis 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 5:21 PM ISTSri 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 6:00 PM ISTThe Rajapaksas – Mahinda, Basil and Gotabaya – were instrumental in Wickremesinghe winning the parliamentary vote in July 2022 to take over Gotabaya’s...