COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan opposition lawmaker on Tuesday accused the Attorney General's Department of deliberately failing to prosecute former President Maithripala Sirisena and former State Intelligence Service Director Nilantha Jayawardena in the criminal case over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, despite both having previously been found responsible by the Supreme Court for failing to prevent the attacks. Speaking during a parliamentary debate on a supplementary appropriation bill, M

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday reaffirmed his government's commitment to introducing a new Constitution and abolishing the Executive Presidency, but said constitutional reform should proceed only after building "a new national consensus," according to a statement issued by the President's Media Division following talks with representatives of six Tamil-speaking political parties. The official account of the nearly two-hour meeting at the Presidential Secretari