Colombo, Sri Lanka – A court in the Sri Lankan capital has extended the custody of the wife of Sri Lanka’s powerful former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was arrested last week over allegations that...
10.14.2026 aljazeera.com , yahoo.com and 9 sites
The Colombo High Court was informed on Thursday that Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, received approximately Rs. 5. 15 million in salary payments during his tenure with t...
10.15.2026 Newswire.lk and 4 sites
A Chinese state-owned firm has withdrawn from a $392 million joint venture to develop a major logistics hub at Sri Lanka's main seaport, the key local partner said Monday. The Sri Lanka Ports Authorit...
10.19.2026 punchng.com , deccanchronicle.com and 1 sites
A series of developments involving India and the wider region unfolded on Tuesday, covering border tensions with China, the outlook for the Indian economy, security concerns in Saudi Arabia and India’...
10.13.2026 Indiatoday.in
Global politics is moving in an increasingly unpredictable direction, unlike anything witnessed in recent decades. What the Institute for Economics and Peace has described as an era of 'Great Fragmentation' appears to capture the current state of the international system. Policy shifts undertaken by the United States during President Donald Trump's second term have further unsettled the global outlook, raising fundamental questions about the future of alliances and partnerships that have long un...
10.14.2026 Slguardian.org and 3 sites
Chamara Sampath Dassanayake. File photograph: Newswire The Sri Lankan MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake, a former Uva chief minister who once forced a Tamil school principal to kneel before him, has been...
10.15.2026 Tamilguardian.com and 1 sites
Namal Rajapaksa and Janaki Siriwardena, a former director of the Krrish Group. Photograph: Ada Derana Namal Rajapaksa, the son of the former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa who presided over th...
10.16.2026 Tamilguardian.com and 1 sitesMember of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa and his brother Yoshitha Rajapaksa appeared before courts in Colombo today (October 13, 2026) in connection with separate corruption cases. Namal Rajapaksa, who is...
10.13.2026 Dailymirror.lk and 1 sites
Yoshitha Rajapaksa greets his father, then Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the then Navy commander Wasantha Karannagoda looks on. File photograph The Sri Lankan government paid £24, 536 to ...
10.16.2026 Tamilguardian.com and 1 sites
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa has formally written to President and Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake, urging the government to incorporate a second-chance loan scheme into the 2027 national budget. A Plea...
10.14.2026 Lankanewspapers.com