Sri Lanka's political campaigning drew to a close Monday ahead of parliamentary polls that have turned into a referendum on ambitious plans to tackle corruption in the bankrupt nation.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s office on Friday (November 2, 2024) also refuted reports that the security of former ...

A committee in Sri Lanka will review the privileges of former presidents, following President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ...

Basil shouldn’t have left country on the eve of Prez poll Mahinda should have retired after 2015 defeat Political marriage ...

2024), the list of candidates fielded by the Rajapaksas’ Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP or People’s Front) showed former President and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, 78 ...

Sri Lanka’s September 21 presidential election – the first since the ... and supported the Sinhala supremacist Mahinda Rajapaksa. The NPP-JVP has not made concessions to the North-East for ...

A Sri Lankan Cabinet sub-committee will soon review the privileges accorded to former presidents of the country and future ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

Uditha Devapriya and Umesh Moramudali on Sri Lanka’s ongoing political realignment.

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has generally seen anti-Indian sentiment rise close to its elections, but this has been notably ...

Parliament during ‘Aragalaya’  ITAK denies bid to forge alliance with NPP by Shamindra Ferdinando Former parliamentarian Rear ...

My adopted country of Sri Lanka recently held presidential elections ... The next president in Sri Lanka was Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005-2015). I remember one time when he gave a speech and I was close to ...