The Kelaniya University Economics graduate tried his best to persuade Dr. P.B. Jayasundera to seek relief from the IMF given the dire situation of the economy. However, instead of acknowledging his ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa had asked them to do what General Zam (pseudo name for Suresh Sallay) says, so that their boss (Pillayan) could be freed easily. According to Maulana, two months after this meeting ...

Soon after Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory, Sallay was appointed Director State Intelligence Service. Until then, any Army personnel hadn’t been appointed to this post, according to Maulana.

A bungalow was allocated to Gotabaya Rajapaksa at Stanmore Crescent, Colombo 05. The land extended over one acre and four perches, with a land value of Rs. 2,542 million and a building value of Rs. 56 ...

After Rajapaksa's ouster, Gnanasara was jailed last year for a similar charge related to hate speech against the country's Muslim minority but was granted bail while appealing his four-year sentence.

Also Read | Sri Lanka’s presidential race: A three-cornered contest The great ousting This economic paralysis created waves of anger against the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime which was widely perceived as ...

This is the exact line that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had articulated to this correspondent before he became President in 2019. This is what Dissanayake said soon after he assumed office: ...

In 2019, the same electorate ditched the Maithripala Sirisena-Wickremesinghe alliance, whose ineptitude had allowed a security breach as great as the Easter attacks, and voted in Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

The Rajapaksa dynasty, for example, had dominated Sri Lankan politics for well over two decades before mass protests over a severe economic crisis unseated the country’s leader, Gotabaya ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s fall from grace had seemed to end a powerful dynasty, but his arrival in the country’s capital, Colombo, shows how deeply entrenched his family is.