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Colombo: Ambulance service in Sri Lanka will be boosted with assistance from India with grants from Tata India and ADB, the government announced on Wednesday.'Suvaseria' was started in 2016 with 297 ambulances acquired from Tata India under a grant from the Government of India. This was later...

Colombo, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said government sector employees will not receive another pay rise this year, warning that further pay rises without proper planning could paralyze the government ahead of presidential and general elections.The 75-year-old, who is expected...

Colombo Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa left on Thursday on an official visit to Beijing, where he will meet Premier Li Qiang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the debt restructuring deal of the island nation with China.China is Sri Lanka's largest bilateral lender, holding...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday opened his political office here, hinting that he may contest the next presidential election to be held later this year.Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and several senior ministers were present at the inauguration of the office...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will definitely seek re-election in the presidential election and will announce his candidacy in the next two weeks, a senior government minister said on Monday."I can definitely say that the president will contest the election," said Harin...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa clan, which faced a political blow in 2022 due to the country's worst economic crisis, will launch its bid to make a comeback in politics on Sunday, targeting the imminent elections.Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda...

Colombo: President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday reiterated his intention to hold the next presidential election this year before the parliamentary elections.Sources confirmed that he had told the Cabinet meeting earlier in the day that the financial allocation has so far been reserved...

The Lanka Premier League 2024 will be held from July 1 to July 21 across three venues.On the local front, Galle Marvels have retained two aggressive batsmen in Bhanuk Rajapaksa and Lasith Kruspule to strengthen their batting department.Rajapaksa has been a household name in the T20 circuit...

FGN74: Lanka-Court-LD Rajapaksa****Sri Lanka Supreme Court summons Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the case of Presidential pardon to the soldier who killed 8 TamilsColombo: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday summoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in connection with the presidential pardon...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday summoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in connection with the presidential pardon granted to a soldier convicted of killing eight ethnic Tamils, including a child, in 2000.The move comes just five months after a landmark judgment by the top...

Colombo: The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Friday issued summons to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the matter of presidential pardon to a murder convict.The move comes just five months after a landmark ruling by the apex court overturned a presidential pardon granted to a close aide of...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], Former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena resigned as President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and replaced him with Minister Vijayadasa Rajapaksa for the post, the Colombo Gazette reported. The SLFP faction led by Sirisena met at a hotel in Kotte on Sunday...

Colombo: Justice Minister Vijayadas Rajapaksa was on Sunday elected as the president of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) after former President Maithripala Sirisena formally resigned from the post amid reports of rising tensions between rival factions.The executive committee of the SLFP's...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe told lawmakers on Thursday that there is no "alternative path" to economic recovery for the island nation other than the reform plans laid out by the IMF.Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence from the British in...

Sri Lanka will hold presidential elections in Colombo from September 17 to October 16, the country's top electoral body announced on Thursday.According to local media reports, in a notice signed by its Chairman R M A L Ratnayake, the Election Commission said it will seek nominations to conduct...

Colombo: If President Ranil Wickremesinghe stands for re-election in the year-end presidential election, he may have to face his Cabinet colleague Wijayadasa Rajapaksa, who currently serves as Justice Minister.Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) chairman, former President Maithripala Sirisena, told...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], The Sri Lankan Cabinet on Friday green-lighted the proposal to hand over the management of the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport to a selected private sector company which has submitted an expression of interest (EOI) for the purpose. Based-ADA Derana said on Friday...

COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday categorically rejected allegations leveled against him by Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the head of the country's Catholic Church, over the investigation into the deadly Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019.On April 21, 2019, 270...