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Two tourists have died from suspected pesticide poisoning after their hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated for bedbugs, Britain’s PA Media news agency has reported.. Ebony McIntosh, a 24-year-old ...
News 1st Digital launched its website, newsfirst.lk [16] in 2007. newsfirst.lk is Sri Lanka's first trilingual website and provides the latest news updates and breaking news in English, Sinhala and Tamil for local, business, political, lifestyle, entertainment and sports news. In August 2013, the newsfirst.lk English website was awarded a ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka rules that SJB MP Diana Gamage holds no Sri Lankan citizenship, and is thus disqualified from her parliamentary seat. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] The Sri Lanka women's cricket team is selected for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup after winning the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier final against Scotland .
The Online Division of Express Newspapers launched virakesari.lk, a 24x7 breaking news website, in 2002, and in 2005 they launched Virakesari's E-paper, which was the world's first Tamil E-paper. The websites boasts of over 2.5 million hits from across the world.
Ramanathan Archchuna is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and physician. He was elected to the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka from the Jaffna Electoral District as an independent candidate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Ranil Wickremesinghe won the election with 134 votes and was elected as the ninth President of Sri Lanka. [5] The election, which was held amid a political crisis, [6] was the first time in the history of Sri Lanka that a vote took place in Parliament to elect a President. [a] [7]
[184] [185] The news that Uganda was going to be blacklisted due to money laundering went viral in Sri Lanka among protesters and social media users, who speculated that Rajapaksa family members and influential politicians in the government could have possibly transferred ill-gotten wealth to Uganda on cargo flights via the Sri Lankan Airlines ...