COLOMBO (TIP): President Ranil Wickremesinghe on February 9 said Sri Lanka was in the final stages of negotiations with the IMF on the much-awaited USD 2.9 billion bailout package that could help the debt-trapped island […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lankan (SL) President Ranil Wickremesinghe has underlined the need to fully implement the India-backed 13th Amendment to the Constitution to grant political autonomy to the minority Tamils in the country. Addressing an […]
Colombo (TIP): Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on June 8 that he has urged IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva to “expedite” its assistance programme to Sri Lanka and underlined that no country except India was providing […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Opposition leader and former premier Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn-in as Sri Lanka‘s 26th Prime Minister on Thursday, days after his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa was forced to resign following violent protests over the worst […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on June 23 was sworn in as an MP for a record ninth consecutive time, creating history as the only politician in the country to have […]