Shri Arindam Bagchi, Official Spokesperson:
A very good afternoon to all of you. Thank you for joining us for the special media briefing on the occasion of the visit of the Honorable President of Sri Lanka. To give us a...
India’s Foreign Secretary, Vinay Kwatra, told the media in New Delhi on Friday after the conclusion of talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the visiting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, that in its economic relations with Sri Lanka,...
The only face-saving measures Wickremesinghe has adopted are sticking to a programme of economic reform that has alleviated the acute hardships of essential goods and services such as gas, fuel, and electricity, which were prevalent around this time...
Rumours abound about the missing Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. The most prominent among them is that the 57-year-old Qin was having an affair with a prominent TV anchor Ms Fu Xiaotian, who is suspected to be a double...
· Who will say “mea culpa” for the total breakdown in law and order?
The law enforcement agencies in the country have come in for heavy criticism from society and political circles over the past week with a call for...
The cold war between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) had a public display of hostility last week, in what turned out to be a good barometer of the tensions between the President and his...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) announced that the recent statement made by Sarath Weerakesekera in Parliament was an unfounded, brazen attack on the Judiciary and the social fabric of the Country.
In a statement, the BASL stated that...
The SLPP-UNP government is drawing heavy flak for its efforts to reconvene the dissolved local government (LG) institutions with the previously elected representatives being reinstated so that the SLPP, which won the majority of the local councils at the...
• Marginal workforce to face the brunt of debt restructuring says the opposition.
• President Ranil Wickremesinghe takes swipes at opposition parties for adopting double standards.
On Saturday, Parliament passed the domestic debt restructuring process giving the Finance Minister and President...
On Saturday, Parliament passed the domestic debt restructuring process giving the Finance Minister and President Ranil Wickremesinghe, a free hand virtually, to take appropriate steps to face the financial challenges faced by the government.
Opposition political parties put the...
Some of its high-profile politicians are hedging their bets and biding their time.
Many believe the Rajapaksa duos absence from the DDR debate is more a face-saving strategy than being in defiance of Wickremesinghe
The huge hullabaloo last week...
The political fallout from domestic debt restructuring and the role of the Opposition in governanceOpposition parties are skeptical about government’s assurances.
Domestic debt restructuring or debt optimization is the buzzword being tossed around in business circles and influential political...
