Tag: Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka: Ex-Navy chief arrested over recruitment of Rajapaksa’s son

July 3, 2026 admin

Wasantha Karannagoda. | Photo Credit: Shanker Chakravarty Colombo Sri Lanka’s anti-graft authorities on Friday (July 3, 2026) arrested former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda in connection with the alleged illegal recruitment and overseas training of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court later granted him bail. Issuing a statement following the arrest, the Commission to Investigate Allegations…

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Sri Lankan court bars ex-President Rajapaksa from foreign travel in Easter attack probe

June 3, 2026 admin

Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday (June 3, 2026) imposed an overseas travel ban on former President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksaand two former military officers in connection with ongoing investigations into the 2019 Easter attack. The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court issued the order after considering…

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Frontrunners, What’s At Stake, Implications For India

September 18, 2024 admin

Sri Lanka’s 17 million voters will choose from among 39 candidates. The political landscape in Sri Lanka is set to change as its citizens elect a new President on Saturday. Sri Lanka’s 17 million voters will choose from among 39 candidates in the country’s first election after the people’s uprising of 2022, which led to…

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Rajapaksas to launch political comeback bid in Sri Lanka

May 26, 2024 admin

Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, and Sri Lanka’s former President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Sri Lanka’s powerful Rajapaksa clan, which suffered political battering due to the country’s worst economic crisis in 2022, will launch its political comeback bid on Sunday by targeting the impending elections. Former President Gotabaya…

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‘Star wars’ in Sri Lanka as astrologers squabble over best date for celebrating Sinhala, Tamil New Year

March 19, 2024 admin

Demonstrators take part in a ritual of boiling milk to mark the Shinala and Tamil New Year during their protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in front of the Presidential secretariat, amid the country’s economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 14, 2022. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s government-backed traditional astrologers…

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Sri Lanka ex-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa turns author, defends his discredited regime

March 7, 2024 admin

Copies of the ‘The Conspiracy’ book written by toppled Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, are on display at a bookshop in Colombo on March 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Two years after his dramatic ouster from office by a popular people’s movement, Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sought to defend his…

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Sri Lanka hopes to clinch debt repayment moratorium: President Ranil Wickremesinghe

March 6, 2024 admin

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. File | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka hopes to avoid repaying debt till December 2027 after the completion of the ongoing restructuring process and repay them in the period running up to 2042, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on March 5, as he defended his unpopular reform plans to revive the…

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Bankrupt Sri Lanka gets China’s tentative agreement on debt restructure

October 11, 2023 admin

Wang Wenbin. File | Photo Credit: ANI Sri Lanka on October 11 welcomed China’s tentative agreement to a debt restructure, as the island nation works to restore its ruined finances after suffering its worst-ever economic crisis. The government defaulted on its $46 billion debt last year at a time when months of food and fuel…

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No international inquiry possible into 2019 Easter bombings: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe

October 7, 2023 admin

Ranil Wickremesinghe. File | Photo Credit: AP Dismissing the possibility of an international probe into the 2019 Easter terror attacks, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reiterated that such an investigation into the incident was not permissible under the country’s law. Responding to Sunday’s editorial in the Catholic Church’s Messenger newspaper titled “An international investigation…

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