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PhonePe Group has also expanded into financial services, consumer tech businesses (Representational) Colombo: PhonePe on Wednesday announced a partnership with LankaPay to allow its users to pay using UPI across Sri Lanka. At an event to mark the collaboration, PhonePe said its app users travelling to Sri Lanka can make payments using UPI across LankaPay…
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File picture of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka will hold presidential election between September 17 and October 16, the country’s top electoral body announced on Thursday. In a notice signed by its chairman R.M.A.L. Ratnayake, the Election Commission said it will call for nominations to hold the Presidential election…
A fortnight after Sri Lanka switched to a new visa issuing system, authorities are facing a backlash over higher visa costs that could deter tourists, “Indian involvement”, and “corruption” in the subject minister’s push to outsource visa processing. Beginning April 17, 2024, Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration directed travellers to a new visa…
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The New Wings activists take part in a silent protest demanding justice of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attack, in Colombo on April 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka marks on April 21 five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 279 people in the island’s deadliest suicide attack, but grieving families say they are…
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A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. File | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR The Sri Lankan government is yet to comment on the recent remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Katchatheevu, but the island nation’s media took a critical view of the development, while fishermen’s associations urged Sri…
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A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has not discussed the Katchatheevu issue so far as it was never raised, a government spokesman said in Colombo on April 2, after India’s ruling BJP blamed the Congress for ceding the tiny island to Colombo in 1974. “The Cabinet…
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A file photo of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on March 22 released 234 acres of land, previously held by the Jaffna Security Forces Headquarters, to farmers in the area, a statement said. Jaffna is a Tamil-dominated capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka….
Chinese research ship Shiyan 6 is seen berthed at Colombo harbor, Sri Lanka, on October 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Chinese research vessel Shiyan 6, which arrived in Colombo last week amid concerns raised by India and the United States, is set to begin its two-day research off the Sri Lankan coast today, Sri…
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Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe. | Photo Credit: Reuters The escalating tensions in Gaza have come under sharp focus in Sri Lanka, an island nation that is struggling to get out of its own devastating civil war, nearly 15 years after it ended. While President Ranil Wickremesinghe recently called for a “four-state” solution involving Israel,…
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Sri Lanka is far from reconciling the ethnic conflict even after 14 years since the end of the country’s civil war. | Photo Credit: AFP India on Tuesday said the progress made by Sri Lanka, on its commitment to fulfill the Tamils’ aspirations, was “inadequate” and urged the island nation to “work meaningfully” to keep…
