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Monday, November 17, 2025
TopicPrime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Topic: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Adani to HCL, Sri Lanka riding high on Indian capital. Modi’s new regional order is working

Modi realises that the political problems in neighbouring countries have to be smoothened out if profit-making has to be taken to its logical conclusion.

Focus on trade, infra to build connectivity — what’s in India-Sri Lanka economic vision document

Modi calls document ‘India’s long-term commitment towards Sri Lanka’ and says the island nation plays an essential role in India's 'Neighbourhood First' policy.

Ranil Wickremesinghe elected new president of crisis-hit Sri Lanka

73-year-old secures 134 of 219 valid votes, defeats ruling party lawmaker Dullas Alahapperuma and leader of Leftist Janatha Vimukti Peramuna party, Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Former minister Basil Rajapaksa stopped from boarding Dubai flight while fleeing Sri Lanka

Basil reportedly tried to take a flight out of the country amid the ongoing economic crisis but airport officials refused to let him leave following protests by passengers.

Sri Lanka to borrow $55 mn from India to buy urea, year after disastrous organic farming turn

Sri Lankan cabinet Tuesday approved proposal for the loan, which will be extended via EXIM Bank of India. India will also be supplying the country with 65,000 metric tonnes of urea.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister wants IMF assistance by middle of June this year

The bankrupt nation will slash its budget expenditure to 'bare bones' and hopes to break even or post a primary surplus of 1% of GDP by 2025, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

Sri Lanka’s newly appointed PM to double up as finance minister to lead debt talks

Wickremesinghe has held talks with foreign envoys and discussed ways to replenish food, fertilizer & medicine supplies. Sri Lanka needs $4 billion over next 8 months to pay for essential imports.

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We blame the government for being too litigious. Data tells a very different story

Real gains can be achieved when the government focuses its reforms upstream in better contract design, stronger capacity to monitor performance and maintain documentation.

Women form about one-fifth of India’s digital workforce, leadership roles a rarity, says LEAD report

The report released at Charcha 2025, an annual gathering of India’s social development sector, found that women remain largely concentrated in low-value and routine roles.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.