Controversies and Salman Khan are inseparable. The Bollywood star who is in Sri Lanka at the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has kicked up yet another storm – both in India and Sri Lanka. Even as Salman Khan insists his visit is not political, Opposition …
Sri Lanka’s central bank on Tuesday raised fixed deposit rates for some savers aged over 60 to 12 percent, as promised in the 2015 budget and ahead of a Jan. 8 snap presidential poll. All deposit holders above 60 years and holding fixed deposits of …
When he called a presidential election for January 8th, two years before he had to, Percy Mahinda Rajapaksa must have been confident of victory. Provincial elections had shown that his once unassailable popularity was waning. But the opposition was fractured, the economy was doing well …
Common Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena who is on an election campaign to the north met Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph on 30 December and sought his support at the January 08 presidential poll. Mr. Sirisena was accompanied by former ministers Rishard Bathiudeen, Rajitha Senaratne and several …
MDMK cadres on Monday staged an agitation in front of the office of a private TV news channel in Chennai, which is scheduled to broadcast an interview of Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Earlier, party founder Vaiko garlanded the statue of the founder of the …
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided to back common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the next presidential election. TNA leader R. Sampanthan made the announcement at a press conference held at the Janaki Hotel, Colombo this morning in the presence of other TNA members. Statement by …
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has conveyed his “strong expectation” that the Government of Sri Lanka will ensure “the peaceful and credible conduct” of its upcoming Presidential election, scheduled for the beginning of the New Year. In a phone call last week with G.L. Peiris, …
Actor Salman Khan has earned the ire of political parties in Tamil Nadu for agreeing to campaign for Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa in elections to be held in that country next month. Salman Khan accompanied his Sri Lankan co-star Jacqueline Fernandez to Colombo to …
Any nation-wide election in the neighbourhood is a treat and/or threat for India not to miss watching even otherwise. Advanced presidential polls in Sri Lanka, the second in a row, slated for 8 January 2015, demands India’s attention even more, given the nature of bilateral …
Two men were riding the train known as the Queen of Jaffna as it rattled through the haunted battlegrounds of Sri Lanka’s civil war. One of them, Nisal Kavinda, a 20-year-old man from the Sinhalese ethnic group, was jubilant. He had wanted to ride this …