Gotabaya Rajapaksa is travelling to India Thursday on his first foreign trip as Sri Lankan President. He will hold a meeting with PM Narendra Modi Friday.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, sworn in as President Monday, has picked brother Mahinda as PM. And they are just 2 of at least 14 Rajapaksas who've held important positions in Sri Lanka since 1936.
A Sri Lankan high court also lifted the overseas travel ban on Gotabaya Rajapaksa who was linked to the case of embezzlement of nearly $1,85,000 public funds during the construction of the DA Rajapaksa Memorial and Museum.
Mahinda Rajapaksa had won power in 2005 and went on to become South Asia's longest-serving leader. He became Sri Lanka's youngest ever parliamentarian in 1970 at the age of 24.
Pacer Lasith Malinga said he is waiting to hear from the Sri Lanka Cricket Board on whether he will be leading the team in the Twenty20 tournament next year.
Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
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.
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