Architect behind Rajapaksas’ return to power quits Parliament
COLOMBO: Basil Rajapaksa, the political strategist who shaped the Presidential election victory of his elder brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2019 and followed it up by…
Colombo Commercial High Court’s fiscal officer interdicted over Aeroflot detention
COLOMBO: The fiscal officer of the Colombo Commercial High Court has been suspended over the incident of detaining an aircraft belonging to Russian Aeroflot Airlines…
Putin fumes after Russian plane seized at Colombo airport, summons Sri Lankan envoy
COLOMBO: Aeroflot has suspended its flights to Sri Lanka after the island nation’s aviation authority prevented a flight of Russia’s flag carrier to depart the…
Sri Lanka Prime Minister says constitutional amendments will empower Parliament to play pivotal role in governing country
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in a special statement to the nation said that the proposed constitutional amendments will empower parliament to play…
CPA slams state authorities for ‘total paralysis’ and urges public and media to show empathy when reporting murder of nine-year-old girl
COLOMBO: The Child Protection Alliance (CPA) has slammed ‘the total paralysis’ of state authorities over the way they have responded to the murder of a…
‘They could not save their baby’: the human cost of Sri Lanka’s fuel crisis, reports The Guardian newspaper
COLOMBO: It was, said the doctor, an avoidable delay that would haunt these parents for ever. When their two-day-old daughter first refused to eat, then…
Aruni Wijewardane is new Foreign Secretary
COLOMBO: The new Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aruni Wijewardane assumed duties at the Foreign Ministry on 23 May, 2022. She was appointed as…
Nine new cabinet ministers sworn in
COLOMBO: Nine new Cabinet Ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President’s House in Colombo The new ministers who took oaths are:…
Air Force denies MP Arundika Fernando served in SLAF
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has denied the statement made by SLPP MP Arundika Fernando that he has served in the SLAF as…
Ranil stands for precisely what the present protest movement seeks to eliminate from this country’s political framework: FUTA
COLOMBO: In a hard-hitting statement, the Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has strongly condemned the appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, describing it…