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

The government must reveal the truth about whether President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka or the World Bank (WB) is being truthful regarding the USD 200 million loan obtained from the WB, former Minister ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri ...

President Dissanayake is asking the people to give NPP a mandate to form of a strong government to fulfil the promises made at the presidential election. It has been the political trend till now that ...

Voting rights would allow overseas Sri Lankan workers a voice in economic policies that impact their remittances and financial interests back home, the Institute of Policy Studies has said.

Sri Lanka has recently elected Anura Kumara Dissanayaka as its new president.

Obviously SWRD’s SLFP did so. JVP leader Anura Dissanayaka’s allegation that the SJB backed the policies of the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government is unsustainable given the 20-point frontal critique ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka has vowed to review all the deals the government has signed in the past amid allegations over corruption and misappropriation of public funds. During his ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation Front, was declared the winner of the weekend's poll with nearly 1.3 million more votes than his nearest rival ...

Voter turnout was about 65% at close of polling, the election commission said. The president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, was elected in September but his National People's Power ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (November 10, 2024) assured Tamils that their land —currently held by state agencies — will be returned by his government.

As President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ruling alliance eyes a parliamentary majority in Sri Lanka’s November 14 general elections voters in Ampara, located on Sri Lanka’s east coast ...