President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led ruling National People’s Power ... under former President Ranil Wickremesinghe led voters to support parties offering ...

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 ...

Campaigning at the General Elections has come to an end. So far, whether it be in the north, south, east or west of the ...

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

The defeat led to a formal split in the UNP with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) emerging as a separate outfit under Sajith ...

The Government is confronted with many challenges including finalising debt restructuring and strictly following the ...

Thursday 7th November, 2024 The NPP’s victory in the September presidential election has catapulted the JVP to the limelight. An otherwise camera-shy JVP General Secretary, Tilvin Silva, faced an ...

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

This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive ...

On the campaign trail, President AKD followed-up his memorable line “I hear talk in certain places about an Opposition. An ...

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

At the same time it firmly opposed Mahinda Rajapaksa’s attempt to be president for a third term. While not supporting the common opposition candidate Sirisena directly, the JVP lent indirect support ...