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Ex-Sri Lanka president Wickremesinghe urges opposition unity

Ex-Sri Lanka president Wickremesinghe urges opposition unity

Published 36 days ago

Two more high-profile Sri Lankan politicians arrested

Security officers escort Sri Lankan former fisheries minister, Rajitha Senaratne (C), outside a court in Colombo on Friday.

Published 326 days ago

Sri Lanka's ex-president Ranil Wickremesinghe hospitalised a day after arrest

Sri Lanka's former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is escorted by prison and police officials as he leaves the Magistrate’s Court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 22, 2025.

Updated 331 days ago

‘Politics of vengeance’ : Tharoor concerned over ex-Sri Lankan president arrest

In a post on X, Tharoor stated that the alleged charges against Ranil Wickramasinghe "seem trivial" and expressed concern about the health of the former Sri Lankan President

Published 331 days ago

Sri Lanka opposition says ex-leader jailed to stop comeback

Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe is escorted to his seat in a prison bus in Colombo on August 22, 2025.

Published 332 days ago

Ex-Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested

Ex-Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Updated 333 days ago

‘Don’t want to be sandwiched, especially between China, India’: Sri Lankan Prez

Sri Lankan new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake waves to supporters during a public rally in Dehiowita.

Published 665 days ago

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads in Sri Lanka presidential polls

Leader and the presidential candidate of National People's Power Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives at a polling station to cast his vote in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

Published 667 days ago

Sri Lanka's election: Test for regional dynamics

Supporters of Sri Lanka's president and United National Party presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe during an election rally (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Published 668 days ago

Morning briefing: Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike

An undated photograph of Ibrahim Aqil, who serves on Hezbollah's top military body as a senior commander according to two security sources in Lebanon and the Israeli Army Radio.

Published 668 days ago

Sri Lanka president defends IMF bailout in campaign launch

Sri Lanka president defends IMF bailout in campaign launch

Updated 691 days ago

Morning briefing: India reaffirms ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, and more

President Droupadi Murmu, vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with leaders of the India’s neighbourhood countries in New Delhi on Sunday. (PTI Photo)

Published 771 days ago

IIT Madras' second offshore campus likely to come up in Sri Lanka

The proposal for an offshore IIT campus in Sri Lanka was announced last November in the 2024 Budget unveiled by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who also serves as the finance minister.

Published 888 days ago

More than 1000 prisoners freed to mark Christmas in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe granted an amnesty to more than 1,000 convicts

Published 939 days ago

Colombo evasive to India over permission to Chinese survey vessel

280 nautical miles east of Chennai in Bay of Bengal.

Updated 1011 days ago

‘Will you lead Oppn alliance?’: Sri Lankan President asks Mamata. Her response

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee along with Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe.

Published 1042 days ago

Confusion over Sri Lanka granting permission to Chinese survey vessel in October

File photo of Chinese ballistic missile tracking ship Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port in August 2022.

Updated 1057 days ago

Will Sri Lanka wake up to Indian strategic concerns?

Chinese maritime research vessel Shi Yan 6 to visit Colombo and Hambantota ports to do survey of Sri Lankan EEZ in end October.

Published 1074 days ago

Wickremesinghe agrees to be sensitive to India's strategic and security concerns

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Sri L:ankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe

Updated 1095 days ago

PM Modi, Ranil boost ties, unveil a new economic partnership

Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe shakes hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

Updated 1095 days ago

PM Modi holds talks with Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe

Prime minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe at Hyderabad house in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo by RajkRaj/ Hindustan Times)

Published 1096 days ago

Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe India bound in July, to seek closer ties

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in New Delhi in 2018.

Published 1130 days ago

‘Cleared final obstacle’: Sri Lankan president on China restructuring loans

Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe

Published 1232 days ago

Sri Lanka forex down to USD 500 million, postpones local polls

File photo of Sri Lankan protests over price rise and lack of essential commodities in 2022.

Updated 1242 days ago

Sri Lanka delays local polls amid economic crisis

Sri Lanka crisis: Sri Lanka has seen more than a year of acute shortages of essentials along with hyper-inflation.

Published 1243 days ago

Sri Lanka bans transportation of beef, mutton as bad weather kills cattle

Representational image.

Published 1318 days ago

Paris Club for 10-year ban on Lanka debt, global north, south to take haircut

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickreemesinghe will have to pay for profligacies and misgovernance of previous China friendly Rajapaksa regime

Published 1326 days ago

Sri Lanka president Ranil Wickremesinghe rules out early elections

Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Published 1336 days ago

China lets down Colombo in securing $2.9 billion IMF loan in December

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

Published 1356 days ago

Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe to attend Queen’s funeral in Britain

Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe  (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Published 1409 days ago

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