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Varalaxmi Sarathkumar is all set to make her debut in Sri Lankan cinema alongside The Lion King's Jeremy Irons in Rizana – A ...
NPP MP Nihal Galappatthi told Parliament yesterday that several top political figures, including three former Presidents and a number of former Ministers, had been implicated in a USD 110 million ...
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has filed a fundamental rights (FR) petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order for the re-deployment of his security. The former President in the petition has ...
COLOMBO, (IANS) – The Canadian government has imposed sanctions on ex-Sri Lanka Presidents — Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa — over human rights violations during the 26-year-long ...
In the early hours of July, Basil Rajapaksa, who was attempting to leave for the United States where he has a resident visa via Dubai, was prevented by the public and the immigration officers.
(Updated)The water connection to a building, adjacent to the official residence of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, formerly used by his security was discontinued today. The General Secretary of ...
The younger sister of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa Gandini Rajapaksa Ranawaka passed away today while being treated at a private hospital, local media reported. She was fifty-eight at the time.
A family member of Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was arrested by the country's anti-graft body on Friday (June 27, 2025), officials said.
Most of all, a very serious allegation the then Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena himself made against some foreign envoys has gone uninvestigated. He told Parliament in March 2024 that he had come ...
Palihawadana Ralahamy, the Registrar of Malimbada, had five sons and one daughter: Sunny, Padma, Mahinda, Amara, Siri, and Nimal. Mr. Peter Wijesinghe, Palihawadana Ralahamy’s brother-in-law, was a ...
The charges stem from allegations that, between 2010 and 2014, during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the accused misused public resources by deploying Lanka Sathosa employees for political ...