Chanu Nimesha's groundbreaking candidacy in Sri Lanka's electoral politics challenges norms and advocates for a more inclusive future.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which has sole authority to print currency in the island nation, told AFP it had not released ...

President AKD comes from the JVP, which is a Marxist party. All their policies are based ... A similar contribution also came from Anura Kumara Dissanayake as he didn’t support any of Gotabaya ...

JAFFNA: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who addressed his first public meeting in Jaffna since coming to ...

In the lead-up to Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections on November 14, corruption has emerged as a dominant and decisive issue.

The communists who ruled the state for 34 years have tried everything to turn around; maybe the problem lies elsewhere ...

Ah – yes, the old lie: that the hope of a nation resides in the chamber where chairs are thrown at critics and chillies are ...

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

Our world’s ideological compass is swinging radically to the right just as we desperately need a reaffirmation of democratic values and a programme that is pro-worker, pro-environment, pro-women, ...

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 ...

The new National People's Power (NPP) government in Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced its first reversal of a key element in the ongoing IMF bailout programme concerning the loss-making state-owned ...

The move comes after public grumbling of price reduction by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ahead of his election on September 21. Dissanayake and his Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) ...