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English, Sinhala, Tamil. Editor. Athula Athulathmudali. URL. www.lankaenews.com. Current status. Active. LankaeNews.com is a Sri Lankan online News website that provides news and feature articles on current affairs in Sri Lanka. It is known and has been targeted for its independent reporting.
The Sri Lankan economic crisis [8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities. [10]
United National Party. Profession. Attorney-at-Law. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, MP, PC (born 16 March 1959) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. He is the current Minister of Justice and previously served in the same ministry from 2015 to 2017. He was the Prime Minister's nominee for the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka.
Anuruddha Ratwatte. Ratwatte in Full General's insignia during military operations in the late 1990's. General Anuruddha Leuke Ratwatte (14 July 1938 – 24 November 2011), frequently referred to as Anuruddha Ratwatte, was a Sri Lankan soldier and politician. He was a Cabinet Minister and Deputy Minister of Defence. [2]
The Department of Immigration and Emigration issues a notice granting 14 days, starting from 23 February, for Russian and Ukrainian tourists living long-term in Sri Lanka to leave the country. Many of these tourists had been residing in Sri Lanka on periodic extensions of their tourist visas since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Lanka Jayasundara, a photographer for Wijeya Publications, was killed by a grenade attack at a music concert in Colombo on 11 December 2004. [45] [46] The Temptation 2004 concert had been heavily criticised by Sinhala nationalists because they claimed it fell on the first anniversary of the death of Buddhist monk Gangodawila Soma Thero .
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The last direct presidential elections held in Sri Lanka were in 2019, where SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the election in a landslide victory, defeating his main opponent Sajith Premadasa. [5] [6] Rajapaksa would eventually resign on 14 July 2022 amidst the 2022 Sri Lankan protests . [7]