Sri Lanka's Opposition Leader and leader of the Tamil National Alliance R Sampanthan slammed the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa for misleading the...
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23rd Nov 2024 | Updated at 05:11pm 23rd Nov 2024
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led by President Maithripala Sirisena ended days of political uncertainty in the country by deciding to be a part of...
Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), have won a local government election in the island...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has assured the minority Tamil community that his government was not running any secret detention and torture camps in the country.
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is reported to have indicated that it will be proper if UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake steps down from his post...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the unity government would continue under the leadership of the President Maithripala Sirisena until 2020 without any problems
An independent international laboratory has found unusually high chemical residues in Sri Lankan tea
The Sri Lankan Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya has warned of strict legal action against local government elections candidates who distribute monetary or material subsidies funded personally or from public money as a part of...
While the opposition and the trade unions have dubbed the deal as a “sell-out,” Sri Lanka last week formally handed over the strategic southern port of...
Three National Freedom Front (NFF) leaders, Weerakumara Dissanayake, former organiser of the NFF Piyasiri Wijenayake and North-Central Provincial Councillor P B Kumara have joined SLFP, President Maithripala Sirisena's party
