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Tensions in the alliance SLFP complains of broken promises

Internal conflicts between the two main parties in the governing Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Peramuna are emerging as the...

December 19, 2020 5 min read

Rathana Thero back in Parliament but may give way to Gnanasara later

Athureliye Rathana Thero’s rocky journey to claim the sole National seat the Our People’s Power Party (OPPP) won at ...

December 19, 2020 3 min read

Showing no compassion towards Muslim sentiments is shameful and dangerous

Sri Lanka’s continuing anti-Muslim policies are shameful as we as heirs to a civilization that goes back millennia are...

December 18, 2020 8 min read

Sri Lankans face an austere Christmas as Covid 19 continues to bite

Sri Lanka’s largest Christian denomination, the Roman Catholics are being asked to mark an austere Christmas as the se...

December 17, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka minister unaware of tampered guns

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's outgoing law and order minister Tilak Marapana said he was unaware of ‘tampered” w...

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November 9, 2015 2 min read

Under fire Sri Lanka Minister Marapana resigns

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's beleaguered Law and Order minister Tilak Marapana announced his resignation Monday morning ahe...

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November 9, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka mourns passing away of monk who fought for freedom

ECONONYNEXT - Venerabe Maduluwe Sobitha Thero, a senior activist monk who had raised a voice against authoritative execu...

November 9, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka uncovers gun running by Rajapaksa's RALL

ECONOMYNEXT - A just concluded audit of weapons at the defence ministry's private sector arm known as Rakna Arakshaka La...

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November 8, 2015 4 min read

Sri Lanka's three 'vice' men?

ECONOMYNEXT - President Maithripala Sirisena's loyalists have identifid three men who have the potential to split the na...

November 7, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka PM under pressure to sack three ministers

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was under intense pressure from his parliamentary group to...

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November 6, 2015 2 min read

Attempts to salvage Sri Lanka's split government

ECONOMYNEXT - President Maithripala Sirisena has called a special cabinet meeting on Monday to try and salvage the unity...

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November 6, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's new regime faces major split over arms scandal

ECONOMYNEXT - Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's coalition faced the first major threat of a split Thursday as two ke...

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November 5, 2015 5 min read

Sri Lanka admits illegal expulsion of Maldivian youngster

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry today admitted a breach of local laws in expelling an 18-year-old Maldivian m...

November 5, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka police in damage control mode after assault boomerangs

ECONOMYNEXT - Thousands of undergraduates marched through the streets of Colombo Tuesday while 2,000 unarmed constables ...

November 3, 2015 3 min read
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Ceylon Chamber demands Sri Lanka govt deliver good governance promise

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s main business group, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has demanded the new regime sti...

November 3, 2015 4 min read

Sri Lanka's new regime violates own laws to help Maldives autocrat

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan authorities have today blatantly violated the country's own laws by forcing a Maldivian man out...

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November 2, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka president meets Thai PM during official visit to Thailand

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena and Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha review the honour guard durin...

November 2, 2015 1 min read

Avant Garde floating armoury sets Sri Lanka on collision course with India

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's defence authorities have made a chilling discovery that the Avant Garde floating armoury had s...

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October 31, 2015 4 min read

Sri Lanka backs stronger economic and maritime links with Indian Ocean rim nations

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is backing greater maritime and economic links with nations bordering the Indian Ocean, ranging ...

October 25, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's 'white-flag' massacre was botched Rajapaksa deal: PM

ECONOMYNEXT - The controversial "white flag killings" were actually due to a botched surrender arranged by former presid...

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October 23, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka arrests MP Weerawansa for travelling on 'stolen' passport - Update

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's ultra nationalist legislator Wimal Weerawansa was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Depa...

October 23, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka troops committed war crimes: Rajapaksa's panel

ECONOMYNEXT - The war crimes investigation set up by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has made startling revelations t...

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October 20, 2015 5 min read

Sri Lanka makes public two reports on missing persons, massacre

ECONOMYNEXT - Reports by two commissions of inquiry on missing persons and killing of relief workers is being tabled in ...

October 20, 2015 1 min read

Worst of European nationalism remembered

ECONOMYNEXT - National Socialists more commonly known as Nazis were among the worst nationalist movements in Europe.

October 19, 2015 1 min read