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Sri Lanka likely to face strong criticism over its human rights situation, diplomats say
Successive governments in the past decade have been warned of a looming power crisis
Two BOI sources confirmed the appointment.
“The postmortem was done yesterday, and the cause of the death has yet to be determined.”
Support for Dissanayake among likely voters has increased by seven percent since August.
Shop and Office Employees Act to be amended
Sri Lanka is to give China two extra hectares of land in a sea reclamation that will expand the capital Colombo as compe...
Australia's latest spin bowling mentor, former Sri Lankan great Muttiah Muralitharan, was sulking Saturday after accusin...
A Sri Lankan court Wednesday jailed and fined an Australian streaker for indecent exposure during a cricket Test between...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered a crackdown on the misuse of public funds and...
Indians workers stranded in the United Arab Emirates with expired work permits, no pay and limited food, water and sanit...
ECONOMYNEXT - Manthri.lk, a Web-based platform that monitors Sri Lanka’s parliament, has helped create more aware...
USS New Orleans, an amphibious assault ship from the United States' rapid response 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) ...
A governance activist has called for Sri Lanka's government securities market to be regulated by the Securities and Exch...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera addressed the 3rd South Asia Diaspora Convention held in ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Police Inspector-General Pujith Jayasundara has hinted of high-profile arrests as the authorit...
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COLOMBO, July 18 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan financial crime police arrested on Monday a brother of former President Mahinda ...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed support for Turkey's elected administration as a coup by a sec...
ECONOMYNEXT - The Turkish embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka said an attempted coup in their home country was "foiled by the ...
State Enterprise Development Minister Kabir Hashim may have set a bad precedent for his cabinet colleagues and directors...
COLOMBO, July 15 (Reuters) - Implementing a U.N. resolution calling for the investigation of alleged war crimes in Sri L...
Sri Lanka's parliament could delay a debate on value added tax scheduled for July 20, State Minister for Finance Lakshma...
Sri Lanka's ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a congratulatory message to the new British Prime Minister Theresa May say...
A journalists who had written about the environmental damage caused by a mini-hydropower plant in Neluwa, Galle in Sri L...
Sri Lanka's new administration has made the Supreme Court independent and court created an era where anyone can get a he...
ECONOMYNEXT – A senior United States diplomat in charge of human rights will visit Sri Lanka this week for talks ...
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