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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (Photo: AP)

As Sri Lankan crisis deepens, Minister says China financing...

A deputy minister in Wickremesinghe's administration, Ranjan Ramanayake, accused China of paying for Rajapaksa to buy...

30 Oct 2018 12:48 PM

Sri Lankas sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe attends a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo | AP)

Sri Lanka braces for protest over PM Wickeremesinghe's sacking

He also suspended parliament in an apparent bid to shore up support for newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda...

30 Oct 2018 7:13 AM

The cricketer-turned-politician was arrested on Monday for the incident at his ministry premises when a petroleum worker died due to shooting by his security staff, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Arjuna Ranatunga arrested over fatal shooting in Sri Lanka amid...

One person succumbed to his injuries and two others were hospitalised in the shooting incident.

29 Oct 2018 12:24 PM

Lu Kang said the situation in the sea has been cooling down, thanks to efforts by China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Photo: AFP/File)

Observing, not interfering in Sri Lanka's political crisis: China

Sri Lanka had plunged into political crisis since Sirisena sacked Wickramasinge and appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa as his...

29 Oct 2018 11:50 AM

Sri Lankan soldiers keep watch outside the ceylon petroleum corporation in Colombo. (Photo: AFP)

Sri Lanka crisis can turn into bloodbath, says Parliament Speaker

'We should settle this through parliament, but if we take it out to the streets, there will be a huge bloodbath,'...

29 Oct 2018 10:20 AM

The speaker also questioned Sirisenas decision to withdraw the security of Wickremesinghe. (Photo: AP)

US calls on Sri Lankan President Sirisena to immediately reconvene...

UN chief Guterres called on the Sri Lanka govt to respect democratic values, constitutional provisions and process and...

29 Oct 2018 3:57 AM

Supporters of sacked Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe gather outside his official residence on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka crisis: 3 injured as minister Ranatunga's guard fires at mob

Parliamentarian Arjuna Ranatunga's guard shot and injured three people at the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation.

28 Oct 2018 1:03 PM

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (Photo: AP)

Rajapaksa ends 50-yr association with Sirisena's party, joins...

Rajapaksa's move signaled that he would contest snap polls, to be held on Jan 5, under his own party banner and not that...

11 Nov 2018 1:27 PM

At a time when Sri Lanka is facing a severe economic crunch and struggling even to pay for food imports, India could make a grand gesture by giving the nod to a request for a $500 million line of credit for them to be able to pay for fuel imports. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

AA Edit | Be friend in need to Colombo

A historic turn of events came with the ending of the war with the Liberation Tigers in 2009 but India has lost much...

21 Oct 2021 10:19 PM

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Power strife adds to Lanka woes

The Rajapaksa siblings should sort the executive powers issue between themselves & get down to addressing the problem of...

20 April 2022 7:29 PM

Sri Lankans protest demanding president Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP)

Sri Lankan Prez sacks brother and Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa

Basil has been replaced by Ali Sabry, who was until Sunday night the Minister of Justice

4 April 2022 10:40 PM

A port worker stands by a ship that carried emergency supplies granted as humanitarian aid by Tamil Nadu government to Sri Lankan people at a port in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices to record high

The price of diesel was raised from Rs. 289 to Rs. 400 a litre, while the cost of a litre of petrol was increased from...

24 May 2022 6:45 AM