COLOMBO (News 1st); The Defence Advisor designate at the High Commission of the Republic of Maldives in Colombo, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Amir and the - Get the latest breaking news and top stories from Sri Lanka, the latest political news, sports news, weather updates, exam results, business news, entertainment news, world news and much more from News 1st, Sri Lanka's leading news network.
Claiming ‘enforced disappearances’ related to Aragalaya: Ex-HRC and OMP officials file FR petitionax Former member of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, Ambika Satkunanathan, and ex-Commissioner of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), Mirak Raheem, have filed a Fundamental Rights Petition, pertaining to, what they called, a wave of enforced disappearances. The respondents are […]
Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned by email, the speaker s spokesman said hours after he landed in the city-state, after protesters overran his palace on the weekend.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday promised to appoint a new prime minister, empower the Parliament and abolish the all-powerful executive presidential system as reforms to stabilize the country engulfed in a political crisis and violence triggered by the worst economic crises in memory.
Protesters are demanding the president’s resignation over a debt crisis that has nearly bankrupted Sri Lanka and left its people facing severe shortages of fuel, food and other essentials.