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The country was in such a constitutional mess that a President elected by an overwhelming majority couldn’t remove an IGP arrested over the Easter Sunday carnage that claimed the lives of nearly 300 persons nor …

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United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative, Una McCauley, 54, died on her way to the Bandaranaike International Airport, on Feb 24th, 2018. Cancer patient McCauley passed away in an ambulance taking her to the BIA …

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One-time Sri Lankan Ambassador in Qatar, A.S.P. Liyanage, was among those who contested the 2019 presidential election. Of the 35 contestants, Liyanage polled 6,447 votes (0.05 per cent). The Sri Lanka Labour Party leader secured the …

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Against the backdrop of a deepening crisis, caused by Switzerland providing political asylum to Inspector Nishantha Silva, his wife and three children, followed by accusations over alleged abduction of a local female Embassy employee, the writer …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa shaking hands with Deputy High Commissioner Tom Burns on Monday. HC Hulton (Centre) and First Secretary Amy O’Brien look on.

Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) leader Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, on Monday, Nov 25, assumed duties as the Foreign …

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Top Federation of National Organizations (FNO) spokesman Dr. Wasantha Bandara, yesterday, alleged that those foreign funded NGOs/civil society organisations played a pivotal role in implementing the UNP strategy.

Referring to their efforts at the last presidential …

නොවැම්බර් 16 වැනි දින පැවැත්වෙන ජනපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වන ප‍්‍රධාන අපේක්ෂකයන් එකම වේදිකාවකට ගෙන ඒමට හැකියාවක් තිබේද? ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ ජනපතිවරණ ඉතිහාසයේ එවැනි සුවිශේෂී අත්දැකීමක් නැත. දේශපාලන තීන්දු තීරණ තම පක්ෂයේ හෝ තෝරා ගත් පුද්ගලයන්ගේ වාසිය තකා ගන්නා වූ රටක ප‍්‍රධාන අපේක්ෂකයන් …

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Many an eyebrow was raised recently when Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka cleared the then UNP government of the shocking exposure of a clandestine operation behind enemy lines, conducted by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) at …

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මහා බි‍්‍රතාන්‍යයේ ආරක්ෂාව සහ ආර්ථික අපරාධ අමාත්‍ය බෙන් වොලස් මැයි 2 ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ ආරක්ෂක තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව විමසා බැලීමට පැමිණීම ඇත්ත වශයෙන් පුදුමයකි. දින දෙකක සංචාරය තුළදී වොලස් මුස්ලිම් ත‍්‍රස්තවාදීන්ගේ ප‍්‍රහාරයට ලක්වූ සිනමන් ග‍්‍රෑන්ඞ්, ෂැන්ගි‍්‍රල්ලා සහ කොළඹ කොච්චිකඬේ …

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Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, yesterday, rejected Tamil National Alliance (TNA) claim that the failure on the part of successive governments to address the grievances of minorities over the past several decades had led to …