COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka marked its 77th independence anniversary on Tuesday with a military parade, while the country’s newly elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, ...
When the island of Lanka got free of colonial rule, the sovereignty of Eelam Tamils wrested by the colonialists, should have been retrieved to the Tamil people. The Sinhalese leaders with the consent ...
MINSK, 4 February (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Independence Day, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. The ...
A Tamil-language version of Sri Lanka's national anthem was dropped from independence day celebrations Tuesday, with critics saying the move was a setback to reconciliation after years of ethnic civil ...