No external solutions to Lanka`s internal issues: Rajapaksa

Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2013, 22:28

President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday told his political rivals not to internationalise Sri Lanka`s problems and instead look to settle them internally.

Mahinda Rajapaksa invites Pope for Sri Lanka visit

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 19:09

Sri Lanka has seen two Papal visits - in 1970 Pope Paul VI visited while in 1995 Pope John Paul II visited the island.

Rajapaksa`s Muslim ally to fight north polls alone

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 11:31

Sri Lanka`s leading Muslim party SLMC, a key ally of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has decided to contest the northern provincial council elections alone.

Rajapaksa meets TNA leader ahead of northern Lanka polls

Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2013, 16:01

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has held talks with TNA on holding free and fair elections in the country`s north.

Lanka govt invites Tamil Nadu fishermen for talks

Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 20:25

The Sri Lankan government on Friday reached out to fishermen community of Tamil Nadu.

Elections to be held in Sri Lanka`s north in September

Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 17:51

The much-awaited provincial council election in Sri Lanka`s Tamil-dominated north will be held in September as planned with President Mahinda Rajapaksa giving his go ahead on Friday.

Lanka President Rajapaksa`s senior envoy departs for India

Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 19:17

Sri Lanka sent President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s younger brother Basil to Delhi to hold talks with Indian leadership over its controversial plan to tinker with the India-moved thirteenth amendment (13A).

Sri Lanka main Tamil party to snub select committee on 13A

Last Updated: Saturday, June 29, 2013, 22:28

President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s Sinhala majority allies warn that undiluted powers to provinces could lead to the separation of the country and a realisation of the Tamil dream to carve out a separate homeland.

Late September date for Lanka`s northern polls

Last Updated: Monday, June 24, 2013, 20:50

The long-awaited provincial council election in Sri Lanka`s Tamil-dominated north would be held in late September, the nation`s poll Chief said on Monday.

Sri Lanka names Parliamentary panel on 13A

Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 21:52

Unfazed by India`s opposition, Sri Lanka announced the names of a Parliamentary panel to discuss the issue of the thirteenth amendment (13A) to its Constitution that devolve some authority to the provinces.