Supporters of Sri Lanka’s main opposition shout slogans during a protest rally against high taxes and increases in electricity and fuel charges, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 30, 2024. Like a number of ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka — Transport a Sri Lankan citizen from the early 1990s to the past week of the island’s politics, and you may just break their brain. Back then, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), ...

Nepal, July 29 -- The Tamil political parties of Sri Lanka, namely All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC), Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA), Ilankai Tamil Arasu ...

Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the ...

After an unprecedented economic crisis, the Aragalaya protest movement, deep public anger over corruption and widespread ...

In a country that once made history by electing the world’s first woman prime minister but today ranks at the bottom for women’s political representation, Harini Amarasuriya’s appointment as Sri Lanka ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka – It was an unlikely invitation from the Indian government. In early February, Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited New Delhi to meet the South Asian giant’s foreign minister, national ...

Just two years after the April-July 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka, neighbouring Bangladesh has been convulsed by mass protests during July-August 2024, sending shock waves through the ruling ...

Sri Lanka’s long-awaited International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout finally came through. On March 20, 2023, the IMF approved three billion US dollars under its Extended Fund Facility. It is claimed ...

When crowds of irate Sri Lankans stormed the presidential palace in July 2022 demanding the ouster of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, somebody like Ranil Wickremasinghe likely was not the ...

Language academies associated with linguistic purism, protectionism and prestige, accept that the Tamil language is the oldest in the world, dating back to pre-history – the second millennia BCE – ...