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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka votes for new parliament as President Dissanayake pushes for majority after securing only 42.3% in presidential ...

Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), a breakaway group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), yesterday said the latter which is governing the country today had even neglected the commemoration of ...

Gunaratnam says President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Govt. bear significant responsibility to investigate deaths of JVP ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.

Tuesday 12th November, 2024 Another round of promise making has come to an end with two days to go before the next general election. Perhaps, the only thing Sri Lankan politicians do ‘as if to the ...