but the parliament election has delayed the process after the September 21 presidential poll and upcoming Thursday ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has on Friday charged an “Iranian asset Farhad Shakeri,” who is accused in a plot to ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People’s Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake contested the 2019 ...

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

Violence has been natural in Sri Lanka with the height of vigour in campaigns during elections. Nevertheless, with the ...

Sri Lanka’s September 21 presidential election – the first since the protests in 2022 that ousted former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa – has been praised for the lack of election violence and ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake pledges to return Tamil lands, hold elections, and address key concerns in Sri Lanka.

Dr Bilesha Weeraratne is a Research Fellow and Head of Migration and Urbanisation Research at IPS. Prior to re-joining IPS in ...

Sri Lanka is currently on a path to establishing a government free of injustice, nepotism, fraud, bribery, and all forms of ...

Sri Lanka concluded its Presidential election on 21 September and elected a new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the NPP, which resulted in the dissolution of the Parliament before its maturity ...

Rajapakshe, who resigned from the Justice portfolio to contest the last presidential election, said that the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) and those who couldn’t stomach ...

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