COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass ...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he will resign next week ... due to the fuel shortage and food prices are soaring. Rice, a staple in the South Asian nation, has disappeared from ...

Credit: Rathindra Kuruwita Gotabaya Rajapaksa ... following protests over a hike in the price of rice. Rajapaksa’s flawed policies and the current crisis have led to the downfall of the ...

Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Ioma Rajapaksa are seen ... was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail for a ruinous rice subsidy; in South Korea, President Park Geun-hye was ...

Sri Lanka’s parliament has accepted the resignation of president Gotabaya ... and distributed milk rice — a food Sri Lankans enjoy to celebrate victories — after Rajapaksa’s resignation.

In April 2021, then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa abruptly banned imports ... on chemical fertilizers for key sectors such as tea and rice, it was too late. By then, fertilizer prices had risen ...

Protesters celebrating last month in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.Credit ... t sit down for a dinner of rice noodles and curry until close to ...

"We hope for a resolution of the current situation that would allow for our resumption of a dialogue on an IMF-supported program," IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said in a scheduled press briefing.

COLOMBO, (IANS) – Beleaguered former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned here from Thailand on September 2 midnight. Rajapaksa, 73, returned to Katunayake International Airport on ...

COLOMBO, (ANI) – Former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in Thailand August 11 evening following his departure from Singapore. Rajapaksa was granted entry into Thailand following a ...

The 38-year-old is the son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the nephew of the ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Namal Rajapaksa is presenting himself as an agent of change, but many ...