COLOMBO: The United States has banned Army Commander Shavendra Silva and his immediate family members from entering the country over ‘credible’ war crime charges. The statement issued by US Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, is reproduced below; The Department of State has designated Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, current Commander of the Sri Lanka Army […]Read More
COLOMBO: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed relevant officials to launch an investigation into an alleged Airbus-SriLankan bribery deal. International reports revealed on Saturday that Airbus had bribed the wife of an executive of SriLankan Airlines to secure an aircraft deal. The scam is a part of Airbus’s massive scheme to offer and pay bribes to secure […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the latest move to ramp up its strategic imprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and to counter Beijing’s power play, New Delhi has reached out to Colombo for stepping up maritime cooperation. The outreach to the new Gotabaya Rajapaksa-led Sri Lankan government was done during the visit of India’s National Security Adviser […]Read More
COLOMBO: World powers have sought a bigger stake in Sri Lanka as the cold war between the U.S. and China intensifies. Top officials from the U.S., China and Russia were in Sri Lanka last week for the first set of high-level talks between their respective governments and the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. China’s State […]Read More
COLOMBO: Two rights bodies today claimed that the new government of Sri Lanka, headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has unleashed a chilling process of repression targeting critics and human rights defenders. The International Truth and Justice Project – Sri Lanka (ITJP) and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) said intimidation and threats to critics […]Read More
COLOMBO: Seeking to allay India’s apprehensions ahead of his first scheduled trip abroad as Sri Lankan President—to New Delhi this week—Gotabaya Rajapaksa has a reassurance to offer. We will work with India as a friendly country and won’t do anything that will harm India’s interests, he told Nitin A. Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief of BharatShakti.in and StratNewsGlobal, […]Read More
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