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By AJA Abeynayake The Supreme Court yesterday extended a travel ban imposed on former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former minister Basil Rajapaksa until 04 August. The ban was extended when a FR case filed over the economic crisis was taken up by the Supreme Court. A motion was filed on 13 July seeking an […]

The Navy rescued six distressed Indian fishermen, who had drifted to Lankan waters, north of Talaimannar, with their malfunctioned trawler, the Navy Media Unit said. SLNS Ranajaya, patrolling in the sea area, on Sunday morning,spotted the Indian trawler, drifting in island waters, north of Talaimannar. Upon inspection of the trawler, the Navy personnel found that […]

Topics Ranil Wickremesinghe | srilanka emergency | sri lanka ANI Last Updated at August 1, 2022 09:09 IST https://mybs.in/2axjcso Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said that there is no point in demanding that he "goes home" as he has no home to go to while referring to the threats received from the protestors. Speaking in Kandy, a

By Ifham Nizam The Irrigation Department yesterday warned of the risk of flooding along the Nilwala and Kalu Rivers due to the prevailing rainy weather conditions. He urged people living in lowlands close to the Kalu and Nilwala Rivers in the Divisional Secretariat divisions of Ratnapura, Nivithigala, Kuruvita, Ayagama, Alapatha, Pasgoda, Kotapola, Pitabeddara Akurassa, Malimbada, […]

By Ifham Nizam The inclement weather is likely to worsen in the western and southern sea areas and over the southwest quarter of the country, during the next few days, with the strengthening of the Southwest Monsoon, the Disaster Management Centre said, and it also quoted NBRO landslide warnings in seven districts. The Department said […]

Sri Lanka's new president Ranil Wickremesinghe has formally invited MPs to join an all-party unity government to revive the bankrupt economy by undertaking painful reforms, his office said Sunday. Wickremesinghe took office earlier this month after public anger over the island nation's worst economic crisis forced his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and…

COLOMBO: President Ranil Wickremesinghe has pushed for an all-party government to resolve Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in memory, as the new leader expects an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to be delayed after unrest over the past weeks. The island nation of 22 million people, struggling with daily power cuts and shortages of essential goods such as fuel,

Sri Lankas President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said that there is no point in demanding that he goes home as he has no home to go to while referring to the threats received from the protestors.

Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to expand the 18-member Cabinet to accommodate members from opposition parties

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new president Ranil Wickremesinghe has formally invited MPs to join an all-party unity government to revive the bankrupt economy by undertaking painful reforms, his office said Sunday.