The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) is receiving complaints from Muslims about widespread harassment tied to “cultural misunderstandings, stereotyping and insensitivities to a way of life,” said Deepika Udagama, its Chairperson, this week. The whole Muslim community was… Read More ›
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s army commander Mahesh Senanayake said the threat of more extremist militant attacks through IS terror organization had been contained and the security services had dismantled most of the network linked to the Easter Sunday bombings. Senanayake… Read More ›
The death toll in Sri Lanka has soared to 290 after a wave of blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country on Easter Sunday. Police said that 24 arrests have now been made, but the government has not… Read More ›
Singapore rejected Wednesday Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s allegation it was sheltering a former central bank chief wanted for fraud, saying Colombo failed to provide documents to support its extradition request. Sirisena on Monday accused Singapore of sheltering Arjuna Mahendran,… Read More ›
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) is receiving complaints from Muslims about widespread harassment tied to “cultural misunderstandings, stereotyping and insensitivities to a way of life,” said Deepika Udagama, its Chairperson, this week. The whole Muslim community was… Read More ›
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s army commander Mahesh Senanayake said the threat of more extremist militant attacks through IS terror organization had been contained and the security services had dismantled most of the network linked to the Easter Sunday bombings. Senanayake… Read More ›
The death toll in Sri Lanka has soared to 290 after a wave of blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country on Easter Sunday. Police said that 24 arrests have now been made, but the government has not… Read More ›
Singapore rejected Wednesday Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s allegation it was sheltering a former central bank chief wanted for fraud, saying Colombo failed to provide documents to support its extradition request. Sirisena on Monday accused Singapore of sheltering Arjuna Mahendran,… Read More ›
Sri Lanka Passports Authority will stop issuance of ‘Middle East Only’ passports from 31st December 2018, and will issue only ‘All Country’ Passports from January 1, 2019, according to Immigration and Emigration Controller General M.N. Ranasinghe. He said the department… Read More ›
Ranil Wickremesinghe was reinstated as Sri Lankan prime minister here on Sunday, likely ending a political crisis that began in late October when he was surprisingly ousted. Wickremesinghe’s comeback is an embarrassment for President Maithripala Sirisena, who replaced him with… Read More ›
Colombo (AFP) – A Sri Lanka court on Monday suspended Mahinda Rajapakse’s powers as prime minister and ruled that his cabinet could not function until its legitimacy was established. The court of appeal said “irreparable damage” could be done to… Read More ›
Sri Lanka’s military chief was remanded by court Wednesday after weeks evading arrest over the alleged cover-up of the abduction and murder of 11 young men during the island’s civil war. Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne is the highest-ranking military officer ever… Read More ›
President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday reignited the power struggle that has crippled Sri Lanka’s government for more than a month, vowing never to reappoint arch-rival Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister. Wickremesinghe’s party has a majority in parliament and Sirisena’s bid… Read More ›
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday asked an all-party meeting to hold a third vote on a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, deepening the country’s political crisis. Sirisena called the all party leaders’ meeting… Read More ›
Bidding farewell to his political party of 50 years, controversially installed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday joined the recently formed Sri Lanka People’s Party (SLPP). His official membership in the SLPP made clear that he would contest the… Read More ›
Sri Lanka’s president on Sunday defended his controversial sacking of parliament, saying violent clashes among rival MPs could have led to “civil unrest” across the country if the legislature had met. Maithripala Sirisena said there were media reports that politicians… Read More ›
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he is willing to work with President Maithripala Sirisena, who abruptly sacked him on October 26, if given a chance to prove his majority in Parliament, when interviewed by the The Hindu. The… Read More ›
UNP Parliamentarian Palitha Range Bandara addressing a press conference at Temple Trees on the alleged attempts to bribe him, plays recording exposing the attempted ‘deal’. Mr Bandara’s ‘conversations’ include S.B. Dissanayake, Yoshitha Rajapaksa and S.B Nawinne’s ‘coordinators’. In one of… Read More ›
The PM of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickeremesinghe, ousted by his own president, President Sirisena. But the ousted PM has refused to leave his residence. Ranil Wickeremesinghe says, “I am still the PM of Sri Lanka”, creating a deadlock. How is… Read More ›
Newly-sworn in Education and Higher Education Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today President Maithripala Sirisena had ‘inherent powers’ to dissolve Parliament in case the Vote on Account to be presented by the new government was defeated. He told a hurriedly summoned… Read More ›
Colombo (AFP) – Tens of thousands of activists blocked the centre of Colombo on Tuesday to protest the sacking of Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister. Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) staged the protest outside his official residence where he has… Read More ›
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena suspended parliament Saturday to forestall a challenge against his surprise ouster of the prime minister, deepening a sudden swell of political turmoil in the island nation. Police cancelled all leave as tensions heightened in Colombo… Read More ›
Good day All. Follow Sri Lanka Today for Rolling News Updates: 26th October 2018: President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday (Oct 26) sacked his Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed former president Mahinda Rajapakse as the new premier, the president’s office said…. Read More ›
Wickremesinghe’s India visit comes in the backdrop of controversial media reports that Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has accused the Indian intelligence agency, R&AW, of plotting his assassination, a claim firmly rejected as “false” by Colombo. India has assured Sri Lanka… Read More ›
RATHMALYAYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – N.K. Masliya says she has been visiting a neighborhood clinic in the northwestern Sri Lankan village of Rathmalyaya for over five years, always dressed in a black abaya – a cloak-like over-garment worn by some Muslim… Read More ›
COLOMBO, March 19 (Reuters) – India’sAccord Group and Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas have signed a $3.85 billion deal to build an oil refinery in Sri Lanka, the biggest single pledge of foreign direct investment ever made in the… Read More ›
Colombo – Sri Lankan police on Thursday made one of their biggest heroin hauls in years, days after unidentified gunmen shot dead an anti-narcotics agent near Colombo. Police said the 200kg haul – worth more than ?2bn on the street… Read More ›
