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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicSri Lanka

Topic: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka to seek $400 million financial facility from RBI to meet short term financial needs

Sri Lanka has placed critical economic measures to save resources hit badly by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected 373 persons in the country.

Sri Lanka postpones parliamentary elections for nearly two months amid Covid-19 crisis

The coronavirus outbreak has killed seven people and infected 295 others in the country.

Sri Lankan police says Easter Sunday bombers planned second attack in the country

Sri Lankan police have arrested over 200 suspects in connection with the bombings.

Twitter ‘mistakenly’ suspended account of Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka. This is what happened

Twitter suspension of the Chinese embassy account in Sri Lanka came days after its undiplomatic tweet. The embassy said freedom of speech must be honoured.

India sends Sri Lanka life-saving medicines, Rajapaksa thanks Modi for ‘warm gesture’

The consignment was sent to Colombo by an Air India special charter flight. It was sent as a donation under the SAARC framework.

Sri Lanka records first death from coronavirus after 65-year-old man dies

The senior citizen had contracted the virus from Lanka's second coronavirus patient who was in contact with a group of Italian tourists.

US, China rivalry spills over into India’s neighbourbood in the form of coronavirus aid

US and China have been on a coronavirus aid-giving spree to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal amid the unprecedented crisis the South Asian countries are facing.

Sri Lanka pulling out of UN resolutions shows that war wounds won’t heal under Rajapaksas

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's administration is sending a clear signal that transitional justice and broader rights concerns have been put on the back burner.

President Rajapaksa could dissolve Sri Lanka Parliament tonight to pave way for snap polls

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had named elder brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister of the caretaker cabinet until the general election in August 2020.

Sri Lanka proposes immediate ban of burqa following Easter Sunday terror attack

A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee also recommended the Election Commission to enact a legislation to suspend the registration of political parties on ethnic & religious basis.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.