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Sri Lanka stocks fall after fuel price hike

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May 24, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka gets career foreign service officer as MFA secretary

Aruni Wijewardane assumed duties as the new Foreign Ministry secretary

May 23, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka injects Rs60bn for 40 days below risk free yield

Injections despite severe fuel and cooking gas shortages

May 20, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka ex-minister says police chief, top govt official failed attack over unarmed protesters

Former prime minister's supporters brutally attacked unarmed protesters in broad day light, in front of police

May 19, 2022 3 min read
Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank 'A(lka)' rating confirmed with negative watch: Fitch

Fitch has also maintained HNB's senior and subordinated debt ratings of 'A(lka)' and 'BBB+(lka)', respectively, on RWN.

US' RM Parks signs deal for fuel retailing in Sri Lanka

RM Parks will operate under the Shell Plc group.

Ghosts of Gota's alleged victims haunting Ranil

For many of those who suffered the loss of family members, friends and colleagues during the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime th...

Arjuna Ranawana
August 13, 2019 4 min read

JVP to announce candidate on 18 Aug

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will announce its candidate for the upcoming presidential election at the National P...

August 13, 2019 1 min read

Higher number of Career diplomats as Heads of missions

The number of Career Diplomats appointed as Heads of Missions has risen to more than half, a Press Release from the Mini...

August 13, 2019 2 min read

"We will not be in a govt with Bathiudeen"-Gammanpila

"It is the job of the party leaders to decide who to take and who not to take. But we have made it very clear that we wi...

August 13, 2019 1 min read

The return of the king?

If there is one key takeaway from yesterday’s spectacle at the Sugathadasa Stadium is that, no matter who sits on the ...

Himal Kotelawala
August 12, 2019 6 min read

Sajith opens his campaign with a populist speech

The United National Party Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa laid out a vision for the country centred on poverty alleviatio...

August 12, 2019 3 min read

Amnesty welcomes new probe into Trinco 5 deaths

Amnesty International (AI) is welcoming the decision by the Attorney General of Sri Lanka to recommence investigations i...

August 12, 2019 2 min read

Gota and Mahinda will have ‘one plan’ to lead the country – Rohitha

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa will definitely become the next President and former President Mahinda Rajap...

August 12, 2019 2 min read

Boiled or fried the bird is the same-PM

" Baked in milk or fried in oil the dove is the same whatever you do the dove cannot be an eagle," said Prime Minister ...

August 12, 2019 1 min read

Gotabaya is a tainted candidate - Mangala

Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera says the selection of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the presidential candidate for the Sri ...

August 12, 2019 5 min read
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Gota promises a more "disciplined society" in acceptance speech

Gotabaya Rajapaksa now the Presidential Candidate for the burgeoning Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) in his acceptance s...

August 11, 2019 11 min read

Gotabaya anointed SLPP candidate for Presidency

Leader of the opposition and the Podujana Peramuna Mahinda Rajapaksa anointed his younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa as ...

August 11, 2019 2 min read

Pohottuwa "Terminator" will terminate your future - PM

In a speech made at Temple Trees today (9), an upbeat Wickremesinghe went on the offensive, listing out exactly what he ...

Himal Kotelawala
August 9, 2019 2 min read

Kurunegala Mayor remanded till 17 Sept

Kurunegala Mayor Thushara Sanjeewa Witharana has been remanded today (09) till 17 September.

August 9, 2019 1 min read

Activists want Gota's passport and Dual Citizenship investigated

Two Civil Society activists are pushing the police towards investigating allegations of an allegedly irregular issue of ...

Imesh Ranasinghe
August 8, 2019 2 min read

Gota will not be a cruel leader, but a "Terminator" to end corruption - Basil

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) architect Basil Rajapaksa gave a public guarantee today (8) that his brother Gotabaya...

August 8, 2019 1 min read

Gamini Senarath acquitted in Litro Gas case

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Chief of staff Gamini Senarath and two others were acquitted by the Colombo Perma...

August 8, 2019 2 min read

Shakthika released on bail; fate may rest on AG Dept

er 130 days in remand custody, fiction writer Shakthika Sathkumara was released on bail by the Kurunegala High Court tod...

August 8, 2019 3 min read

Sushma Swaraj a true friend of Lanka - PM

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has offered his condolences on the passing away of former Indian Minister of Externa...

August 7, 2019 1 min read

On normalising hate

A certain rhetoric that connects violence to the idea of the state and the nation continually legitimises and normalises...

Anupama Ranawana
August 7, 2019 4 min read