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Rajapaksas officially ditch Wickremesinghe
COLOMBO: Namal Rajapaksa, the 38-year-old heir to the Rajapaksa dynasty, was on Wednesday named as the SLPP candidate for the presidential election, thus officially ending Rajapaksa family's backing to the incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe.…
Ranil Wickremesinghe to fight presidential election as independent
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday declared his candidacy to contest the presidential election in September as an independent candidate by depositing money to contest the upcoming polls.
Earlier in the day, the…
Japan resumes funding Sri Lanka after debt restructure
COLOMBO: Japan will resume funding stalled infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka, including the expansion of the main international airport, government officials said Wednesday, after the bankrupt island nation successfully restructured its…
Wickremesinghe rules out another salary hike for government employees
Wickremesinghe intends to contest as an independent candidate backed by all political parties who are bent on maintaining the economic reforms programme set in by him.
Sri Lanka releases $39 mn for welfare benefits program
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government disbursed nearly 12 billion Sri Lankan rupees ($39 million) to the bank accounts of people selected as beneficiaries under Aswesuma welfare benefit payment program, the President's Media Division (PMD)…
SL thanks India, key bilateral creditors for finalising $10 billion debt deal
Colombo; With a major move to turn around the country's worst-ever financial crisis, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe thanked India and other key bilateral creditors for finalising a debt restructuring deal valued at a combined…
Sri Lankan cabinet clears proposal to turn military airbase into civil airport
Colombo; Sri Lankan cabinet approved a proposal to make preparations to develop the Hingurakgoda airport in the North Central Province as a complete airport for civilian use, the government's information department said on Tuesday.…
Sri Lankan President thanks India for ‘continued support’
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar for their "continued support" to the island nation.
Wickremesinghe met EAM Jaishankar in…
Sri Lankan cabinet calls for probe into recent floods, which killed 17
Colombo: Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers, on Tuesday, authorised the investigation of the cause of the recent floods, which left 17 dead and thousands displaced as heavy rains and strong winds lashed out across many parts of the country.…
Foreign policy under Modi 3.0 will be crucial for the entire region: Lankan experts
Colombo: As India has completed its elections and results are out, foreign policy experts and academics have viewed the results as proof of India’s strong democracy while the re-election of Prime Minister Modi’s government is proof of…
Pak reach 317/5 as Babar survives two calls and becomes highest run-getter in 2022
Karachi: Pakistan recovered from a precarious 110 for four to finish the opening day’s play in the first Test against New Zealand at 317 for five at the National Bank Cricket Arena on Monday.
Captain Babar Azam benefitted from a dropped…
Motto for Today: ‘Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.’
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Dec.26........
1854 - Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited in Buffalo (US).
1865 - James H. Mason of Franklin, was issued the first U.S. patent for a…
Taking back POK; A Reality Check !
New Delhi/Jaipur: India celebrates VIJAY DIWAS on 16 Dec to commemorate 51 years of Victory in Bangladesh. Last month, Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh was on a day’s visit to the India-China border in Eastern Ladakh. This was his second…
Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka has to build new economy
Colombo: Sri Lanka has to build a new economy to forge ahead and there is no question of reforms because an economy does not even exist, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in remarks published on Tuesday.
The Daily Mirror quoted…
Indians Coast Guards rescue SL fishermen missing for 63 days
Colombo: A group of four Sri Lankan fishermen who set sail on September 25 and got lost in the sea for 63 long days have been rescued by the Indian Coast Guard, it was reported on Wednesday.
The men were on board FV Neil Mary were sailing…
Unnati, Anmol start on winning note at Badminton Asia Jr Ch’ships
Nonthaburi (Thailand): Top seed Unnati Hooda started her campaign in dominating fashion as seven Indians won their matches at the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships.
In the U-17 women's singles round of 64 match, Odisha…
Britain to send SL asylum seekers to Rwanda
Colombo: Three Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean controlled by Britain, are expected to be transported to Rwanda for medical treatment, the British foreign office has said.
More than 200 Sri…
TN opener Jagadeeshan hits 15 sixes to break several world records
Bengaluru: Tamil Nadu batsman Narayan Jagadeesan on Monday shattered all major world records in men's list A cricket during his innings of 277 off 141 balls against Arunachal Pradesh at Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Monday.
He broke the…
Motto for Today: ‘Confidence comes not from always being right, but not fearing to be…
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov.13........
1851 - The first public message was sent on the submarine telegraph cable under the English Channel between Dover, England and Calais,…
China has no debt trap in Bangladesh: Ambassador Li Ziming
Dhaka: China's ambassador to Dhaka, Li Ziming, said that the economic condition of Bangladesh is much better than that of Sri Lanka and there is no Chinese debt trap in Bangladesh.
He made this claim in response to a question at the…