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When a president of Sri Lanka is elected, the first to congratulate him is the neighboring country India. But Indian Prime Minister Modi did not congratulate Ranil until a week after Ranil was sworn in as President. Similarly, when a...

Media reported last week IMF review on Sri Lanka is scheduled for June 12th. Along with the announcement of this review date by IMF UNP general secretary Range Bandara made a statement to the media and said to implement the...

After Iran's former president Raisi decided to come to Sri Lanka, the government's unofficial media spread the news that worries were expressed to Sri Lanka from America and Israel. The government's unofficial media also reported that two officials of the...

It is reported that Ranil will announce his candidacy for the presidential election after completing the debt restructuring. He has high hopes for Sri Lanka's debt restructuring. Foreign Minister Ali Sabri says that US Dollar17 billion debts can be cut...

One of the main reasons President Ranil invited the Iranian President to come to Sri Lanka was to win the Muslim voters in the presidential election. He was looking for PR tactics for this. Ranil's media unit translated the conversation...

"Ravana had been unconscious (after the arrow shot by Rama hit him) and regained consciousness after the LTTE war ended..." Historian Dr. Mirando Obeysekera's statement may seem silly, but the Ramayana was revived after the LTTE war ended. The reason...

First, the Uma Oya project began in 1959 after a study by the United States Operations Mission and the Canadian Hunting Survey Corporation. The project was stopped due to funding issues. Iran decided to fund the Umaoya project, which started...

On November 24, 2011, the headline story of 'The Island' newspaper was that a diplomat of the American Embassy in Sri Lanka told a powerful minister in Mahinda's government to release General Fonseka who was in prison at that time....

JR Jayawardene's biography states that the politics of Sri Lanka changed during the two days that the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi spent with the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mrs. Bandaranaike, who came to Sri Lanka...

As Dinesh Gunawardena was getting ready for his visit to China, Indian media reported the presence of four Chinese research ships in the Indian Ocean. Concurrently, the Sri Lankan government was reconsidering its ban on Chinese research vessels. Despite Chinese...