Uniindia: New Delhi, Sep 19 (UNI) China is our close friend but India is our brother and sister, said High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda on Monday quoting the country s former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka s envoy defended the nation s decision despite India s intermittent objections. He said the decision to allow the docking of the Chinese ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ was taken at the level of “officials” in the chaotic time when former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was leaving the country.
Friday 2nd September, 2022 The government is cock-a-hoop that it has been able to reach a staff-level agreement with the IMF for a 2.9-billion-dollar loan to be released over a period of four years. Something is certainly better than nothing, but Sri Lanka needs much more to be able to straighten up its ailing economy. […]
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) ruled on Tuesday that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July amid the unrest triggered by the ongoing economic crisis, should be allowed to return to the .
In a win for democracy, mass protests in Sri Lanka recently led to the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.