Sri Lanka Political Crisis Update: In Sri Lanka, protests by some people, which started in isolated places demanding to meet basic needs, quickly turned into a tsunami that overthrew the once powerful Rajapaksa family from power. This development appears to be the period of the ‘Arab Spring’, when power changes took place in several Arab […]
New Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been in Parliament for 45 years. Lawyer-turned-politician Wickremesinghe has made a remarkable comeback in the August 2020 general election, nearly two years after his United National Party (UNP) lost and failed to win a single seat. The 73-year-old leader, considered close […]
Sri Lanka. If you take the sea route from Rameswaram in India, you will stand on the land of this neighboring country in just 1-2 hours. Indians also have a mythological connection with Sri Lanka. But today we will not talk about that. Sri Lanka, once called the Lanka of gold, has reached the brink […]
Sri Lanka Crisis: Due to the economic crisis in India’s neighboring country Sri Lanka, the situation is continuously deteriorating. Violence is erupting after the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The protesters have come down on arson and sabotage. Now the protesters have also set the house of Mahinda Rajapaksa on fire. At the same […]
Sri Lanka economic crisis: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday rejected the protesters’ calls for an interim government to be formed to deal with the unprecedented economic crisis in the country. A large number of protesters have been on the streets in Sri Lanka since April 9, as the government does not have […]
Colombo: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that Kashmir only has a ‘dispute’ with India and it can be resolved through talks. Addressing the Sri Lankan-Pakistan Trade and Investment Conference, Khan said that he had offered India to hold peace talks when he was elected Prime Minister in 2018 but nothing happened. Imran […]