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Formerly exiled billionaire freed six months into eight-year sentence due to age and health Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been freed on parole and returned home, six months after he was arrested on his dramatic return to the...

1988 Premadasa - Wijeweera - Vijaya 2024 Sajith -Anura The political animosity between Mr. JR Jayawardena and Mrs. Bandaranaike surpassed any other rivalry among opposing party leaders. During the 1970-1977 Samagi Peramuna government, Prime Minister Mrs. Bandaranaike went as far...

The Ceylon Electricity Board predicts that dry weather in Sri Lanka will continue limiting hydropower generation. CEB Spokesperson Noel Priyantha says that thermal power generation will increase to 63% due to this situation. He stresses the need to manage water...

Sri Lanka’s anticorruption framework is in the process of undergoing major changes with a systematic and formal set of rules to impose severe punishments for offenders to combat this menace. The government will be introducing a strong legal system and...

The South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Port Access Elevated Highway (PAEH) project, which is constructing approximately 5.3 km of an elevated toll highway with related facilities between New Kelani Bridge (NKB) and Galle Face, has resumed following some issues...

To bolster fiscal responsibility, and enhance budget formulation and execution, Parliament is poised to enact a new Public Financial Management Act this month. The legislation, currently in its final stages, aims to revamp the fiscal management process, guided by recommendations...

In just a few weeks since the newly imposed 18% VAT, the coconut industry in Sri Lanka is in dire straits, with oil millers reducing operations to a few days per week, resulting in the loss of over 50,000 jobs....

“Elections will be held in time, opposition circulating rumours” President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said that the people of this country well know that there are no shortcuts to abolishing the executive presidency.Responding to a query by a group of...

Within two months, India’s Grand Old Party has gone from a serious challenger to Modi to a struggling force, just before national elections A little more than two months ago, the Congress party, India’s biggest opposition force, seemed to be...

Navy reinforcements heading to the Pacific amid sabre rattling over nuclear weapons and territorial disputes The United States is expected to deploy almost half of its aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific this year, as military tensions continue to rise...