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EXPLAINER: Implications of Modi’s narrow election victory for Sri Lanka

India seen pushing its policies, deals towards Sri Lanka without any significant change

June 8, 2024 6 min read

Sri Lanka Police try humour to get message across social media

A series of tweets with popular culture references

June 7, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka to allocate foreign job quota for retired soldiers after deaths in Russia-Ukraine war

Sri Lanka has been trying to bring back retired military personnel who have joined Russian-Ukraine war for money

June 6, 2024 2 min read

Family member complaints about Sri Lankans in warfront rise to 455

Returnees have said about 600 to 800 Sri Lankans may be at the warfront working for Russian private military companies. ...

May 30, 2024 2 min read
US provides radiation detection equipment to Sri Lanka’s main port

US envoy commissioned the equipment last Friday

Sri Lanka won't interfere in regional geopolitics: Minister

Ready to support prevention of terrorism, Jayatissa, a member of a party that conducted 2 armed insurrections, said

Pompeo meets Lankan leadership today to keep Colombo within US orbit

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who arrived in Sri Lanka last night will have talks today with President Go...

October 28, 2020 2 min read

The government will fight efforts to lift ban on the LTTE in the UK – Foreign Ministry

The door has opened for the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the United Kingdom to be lifted by a r...

October 22, 2020 2 min read
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Government MPs want Riyaj Bathiudeen re-arrested over Easter Bombings

More than two-thirds of the country’s governing party Parliamentary Group has signed a letter addressed to the Preside...

October 10, 2020 3 min read

President Gotabaya says no deal with Bathiudeen over 20A

Sri Lanka’s President has shot down speculation that he is “cutting a political deal” with a powerful Muslim polit...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 4, 2020 3 min read

IshiniGate: Instagram star breaks her silence says cyberattacks “are overwhelming”

A Canadian Social Media influencer who raised tens of thousands of dollars for victims of the Easter Sunday attacks is s...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 2, 2020 5 min read
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North and East protest government actions to disallow memorials for war dead

Most schools, shops and businesses in many parts of the North and East remained closed today in protest against the auth...

September 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Navy recovers abandoned explosives in Mullivaikkal

The Sri Lanka Navy recovered an assortment of explosive items in a privately owned development site in Mullivaikkal, Mul...

Chanka Jayasinghe
September 16, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka sea reclamation project's China affiliates on US export blacklist

The United States has placed several subsidiaries of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the ultimate pare...

August 30, 2020 3 min read

Handunetti cannot depose before Presidential Commission - Speaker

A Chairman of a Committee or an official of Parliament cannot be summoned before Presidential Commission of Inquiry to r...

Imesh Ranasinghe
August 27, 2020 1 min read
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Hope that the country will go towards an inclusive nationalism

There is a concept of inclusive nationalism, in which everyone born within the boundaries of the country (regardless of ...

Dr. Jehan Perera - Executive Director National Peace Council
August 25, 2020 6 min read
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New mechanism to address public complaints against police: Def Secy

Sri Lanka’s defence establishment plans to launch a new mechanism to address public complaints and petitions against t...

Tharumalee Silva
August 20, 2020 2 min read

Gotabaya controversially appoints Ali Sabry as Minister of Justice

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decision to appoint his attorney Mohamed Ali Sabry as Minister of Justice today is cont...

Arjuna Ranawana
August 12, 2020 3 min read
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been strengthened and now he has to deal with multiple crises

The result of the election has shown that the people have heeded President Rajapaksa’s call and strengthened his hand ...

Arjuna Ranawana
August 9, 2020 9 min read

Opinion: Sri Lanka ruling party is ahead with 12 days to go for Parliamentary polls

Sri Lanka is nearing the end of the Parliamentary General Election campaign, and the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna ...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 25, 2020 10 min read
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COVID positive inmate from Kandakadu is on the loose after escaping from IDH - Police

Police are seeking public assistance to hunt down a COVID 19 positive inmate from the Kandakadu Rehabilitation camp who ...

July 24, 2020 2 min read
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Government wants two-thirds majority in Parliament to fight extremism – G L Peiris

The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof G.L. Peiris is saying that the governmen...

July 21, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka military eyes driving license production business

Sri Lanka's military is planning to get into the business of producing driving licenses from next year amid a controvers...

July 15, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka to call for international bids to buy four used helicopters for the SLAF

Sri Lanka will call for international bids to buy four used helicopters for the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) to train pilo...

July 9, 2020 2 min read

Magistrate orders police probe into how in-camera evidence by children was reported by media

The Fort Magistrate has ordered an investigation as to how evidence given to him in-camera by two children last week mad...

July 1, 2020 2 min read

Pompeo and Dinesh talk about Millennium Challenge Compact deal - Ministry

US Secretary of State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have discussed th...

June 30, 2020 1 min read