People in Sri Lanka are voting in snap parliamentary elections, barely seven weeks after choosing a new president. More than ...

Over 17.1 million voters in Sri Lanka are eligible to cast their votes to elect a 225-member parliament in the November 14 polls amid the sovereign defaulted nation’s partially completed debt ...

A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...

The JVP is now ready to form the majority and finally oversee the ... In this huge expulsion exercise, Sri Lanka finds family members of the island’s most powerful political family (until recently), ...

President Aruna Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected as President in September, is seeking a majority so that most of the policies of his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna can get parliamentary approval ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President Anura Dissanayake faces a range of key political risks and challenges, particularly given ...

Still, considering that the JVP’s tolerance to dissent in a government of their own is untested, it might help if the ...

The 55-year-old leader is seeking a two-thirds majority in the 225-member legislature to press ahead with reforms ... with ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Tuesday scheduled the inaugural session of the newly elected parliament for next week, following last Thursday’s parliamentary election. As per ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

On September 30, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) hosted the “Antisemitism 101” workshop in the Dining Center as part of Haverford’s Meeting the Moment initiative announced earlier ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...