Mahinda Rajapaksa

<!-- -->The overseas travel ban which was imposed on ex-Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa was lifted on Wednesday.Colombo: The overseas travel ban which was imposed on former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa with regard to the May 9,…

COLOMBO: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka's national airline announced a staggering $525 million annual loss on Friday.With nearly 6,000 staff, SriLankan Airlinesis the biggest and most expensive of the cash-haemorrhaging state companies that have…

COLOMBO: A Chinese state-owned firm said on Monday it plans to take its investment in Sri Lanka to $2 billion by building a major logistics hub.Sri Lanka is looking to kickstart its economic recovery after defaulting on its foreign debt…

Last Updated: January 20, 2023, 22:24 ISTEAM S Jaishankar (left) and Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa (right). (Photo: Twitter / @DrSJaishankar)Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, fled Sri Lanka to the Maldives on a Sri Lanka Airforce…

Last Updated: January 10, 2023, 23:33 ISTGotabaya Rajapaksa temporarily fled his country last summer after mass protests over the country's economic crisis (Image: AFP/File)Canada on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankans, including…

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said 2023 will be a "critical year" for the cash-strapped country, as his regime desperately scrambles to inject much-needed impetus to galvanise the beleaguered economy. Sri Lanka was hit…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Wednesday directed authorities to issue summons to ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksato appear in court over the disappearances of two activists in 2011 as he has now been stripped of constitutional…

Sri Lanka’s former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa addressed his first public meeting on Saturday since he was forced to resign in May and ouster of his younger brother and former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July. While addressing a…

The Sri Lankan high commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda on Monday said that former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka’s relationship with India is akin to that shared between brothers and sisters. Moragoda said that…

A 350-meter tall China-funded towerwill be the main attraction for Sri Lanka to lure tourists to the bankrupt country. Shaped like a gigantic long-stemmed lotus, the structure is the tallest in the South Asian nation. It opened to the…