Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has cited the need to reform the local councils’ system. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s top election body announced on January 4 that it will accept nominations from January 18 to 21 for the local council polls, which have been postponed since March amidst the prevailing economic crisis. Notices … Read more
India vs Sri Lanka T20: Pacer Shivam Mavi took 4 wickets in his debut match against Sri Lanka in the first T20 at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. India won the first clash against the Lankans by 2 runs. Mavi got opener Pathum Nissanka out in his very first over. In subsequent overs, he got Dhananjaya de … Read more
Pace duo Saqib Mahmood and Brydon Carse have been named in England Lions’ one-day international squad for the forthcoming tour of Sri Lanka. Mahmood, 25, broke into the England Test team last March but has been sidelined since May after suffering a stress fracture of the back. The 27-year-old Carse, meanwhile, has not played a … Read more
Image used for representative purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka began a fresh austerity drive on Monday, freezing government recruitment as new taxes and higher electricity prices kicked in with authorities trying to secure an IMF bailout. The Indian Ocean island nation needs to achieve debt sustainability as a precondition to a … Read more
Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July last year and then returned after nearly two months, has applied for restoration of his U.S. citizenship after he failed to get asylum in any country, according to a media report. However, … Read more
Sathish Sumithra’s son, barely two years old, is too young to make sense of Sri Lanka’s unrelenting economic crisis, but not to escape it. He must cope with the drastic dietary and lifestyle changes it has brought about. His formula milk intake has halved, he is fed an occasional egg — his parents cannot afford … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Reuters Uditha Jayasinghe and Swati Bhat Publishing date: Nov 23, 2022 • 9 minutes ago • 3 minute read Join the conversation Article content COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s central bank on Thursday threatened administrative intervention to control high market interest rates that it regarded as out of … Read more
Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. File Photo. | Photo Credit: AFP COLOMBO: Two-time President and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday blamed “foreign forces” and the former government for Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, while admitting to “some wrong decisions” taken by their ousted administration. Foreign powers “eyeing Sri Lanka’s national assets”, and their … Read more
The Sri Lankan government is drafting a new counter-terrorism law to replace the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said on Sunday. The PTA was introduced as a temporary arrangement to counter the campaign of separatist violence by the Tamil minority militant groups in 1979. Addressing reporters in the central district … Read more
TNA spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran. File. | Photo Credit: AP Reaching out to Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties in Parliament on November 10, President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited them for a discussion this week, and pledged to resolve their pending issues before the island nation’s 75 th Independence Day falling on February 4, 2023. However Tamil politicians, … Read more