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G.L. Peiris invited to Washington by Hillary Clinton ahead of Geneva resolution

The United States is sending three top officials to Colombo ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva where Washington is proposing to move a resolution on Sri Lanka.

The…

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The Central Bank on Friday finally veered towards IMF calls for a devaluation of the rupee, depreciating the local currency marginally against the US dollar and initiating measures to curb credit growth.

Bankers, however, said these measures were unlikely to dampen imports and ease pressure on the US dollar, unless a bigger…

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Minister Sirisena’s decision arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable

In an unprecedented move, a Member of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) has challenged his "arbitrary removal" by Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena in a Fundamental Rights (FR) plea before the Supreme…

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The Sri Lankan government is ready to deploy additional troops under UN command for peacekeeping operations, the army has told the world body.

Army Chief Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya informed a visiting high level Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) delegation of the SLA’s readiness to increase…

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A simmering internal battle in the UNP took a turn for the worse yesterday when the party reformists made an abortive bid to disrupt a public meeting chaired by UNP and Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at Imitiaz Bakeer Markar’s stronghold in Beruwela.

Several hundred UNPers launched a protest in the…