Mahinda has not resigned from UPFA/SLFP

Indian envoy in urgent talks with President, PM and FM

By Easwaran Rutnam ? The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay has had urgent talks with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. According to reports, the meeting took place yesterday, a day after Sri Lanka made a u-turn on the East Container Terminal deal with India and Japan. Relations between Sri Lanka and India hit a new low after Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that Sri Lanka will not go ahead with t

03 Feb, 2021

Sri Lankan gangster detained in Chennai with three aides

Sinnaiah Gunasekaran alias Kimbulaela Guna, a Lankan druglord who had links with LTTE, has been arrested along with his three associates at the Chennai airport, minutes before they planned to board a flight to Delhi, DT Next reported. Before escaping to Tamil Nadu from the island nation, Guna was a major drug dealer in Sri Lanka. He allegedly took part in the LTTE?s failed attempt to eliminate then Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1999. After that, he fled Sri Lanka and was living in T

02 Feb, 2021

ADB summit to be held in Sri Lanka in May

The 55th annual summit of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will be conducted in Colombo in May 2022. The Governing Board of the ADB has granted approval to conduct the proposed summit in Sri Lanka from 02-05 May, 2022. The Cabinet has approved the resolution submitted by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Finance Minister to formulate a plan on the necessary actions to conduct the annual summit of the ADB. Approval has also been granted to enter into a memorandum of under

02 Feb, 2021