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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicGotabaya Rajapaksa

Topic: Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Former Sri Lanka president Wickremesinghe transferred to ICU ahead of hearing

Wickremesinghe was scheduled to be brought before a Magistrate on August 26. However, hospital officials said he has been advised to take medication & rest for the next three days

Sri Lanka’s SC overturns former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa granting pardon to murder convict

Rajapaksa, in mid-2021, had pardoned a close political aide Duminda Silva who had been subjected to death penalty for murdering local political rival from the same party in 2011.

Sri Lankan President to visit to India next month, will hold talks with PM Modi on 21 July

India has played a major role since the island country plunged into crisis last year after its foreign exchange reserves dried up.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.