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During peace talks between President Ranasinghe Premadasa and Prabakaran, President Premadasa expressed to the LTTE's deputy leader that he would like to see him become the Chief Minister of the North-East. The LTTE deputy leader, Mahathaya, came from a modest...

During the 1971 rebellion Prime Minister Mrs. Sririmao Bandaranayake and her Sri Lankan Government had a great suspicion that China helped the JVP. She was doubtful of the Chinese ship with weapons anchored in the port of Colombo on the...

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson has said that a Chinese training ship is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on the eve of the presidential election. He has stated that this ship is scheduled to reach Sri Lanka between mid-August and...

After the signing of the Indo-Lanka Agreement in 1987, then Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi invited JR as the chief guest on the Republic Day of India in 1988. JR, when he was getting ready to go to India,...

Mahinda Rajapaksa's government faced criticism for its decision to impeach former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranaike, which infringed on judicial independence. Although the government aimed to carry out the impeachment within constitutional limits, the US State Department started on December 7,...

President Ranil had planned to visit Japan as soon as the debt restructuring was completed, but that did not happen. Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, went to Japan instead of Ranil. Ranil took the post of Prime Minister from Gotabaya by...

After Mahinda Rajapakse's visit to China, Foreign Minister Ali Sabri announced in Japan that Sri Lanka intends to lift the ban on foreign research ships by the end of this year. The one-year ban, imposed last year, targeted China. India...

The political rise of TNA leader R. Sampanthan and Ranil Wickremesinghe share some similarities. Ranil became the UNP leader after the LTTE assassinated several UNP leaders. Similarly, Sampanthan, who had lost all elections since 1977, was elected to Parliament following...

The first presidential Election of Sri Lanka was held in 1982. Leader of the Tamil Congress party Mr Kumar Ponnambalam contested this election to win the North-East Tamil votes. Ironically Mr Hector Kobbekaduwa the SLFP candidate polled more votes than...

When Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister for the first time, then-President Mahinda Rajapaksa attended the ceremony from Sri Lanka. This invitation sparked dissatisfaction among opposition political party leaders due to strained relations between Mahinda's government and the...