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Sri Lanka

President accused of intimidating National Police Commission

Opposition lawmaker and General Secretary of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Ranjith Madduma Bandara, has alleged that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had issued...

Sri Lanka

Top monks urge President to rethink LGBTQ+ tourism plans

The Chief Prelates of all three Buddhist Chapters have asserted that proposed amendments to the Penal Code introducing an offence for corporal punishment,...

Sri Lanka

Mannar protestors slam President over unkept promises

Protests against a controversial wind farm project in Sri Lanka’s Mannar town escalated overnight as turbines and machinery were transported under heavy police...

Sri Lanka

ITAK says President has failed to deliver on reconciliation pledge, seeks meeting

A year after Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka, the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK), the country’s leading Tamil political...

Opinion

Sri Lanka: Year of change, many hills to climb 

By Dilrukshi Handunnetti The administration has failed to ease the economic burden in a tangible way, and the public continues to reel under...

Sri Lanka

Bribery Commission flooded with requests for politicians’ asset details

Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption has seen a surge in Right to Information (RTI) applications seeking access to...

Sri Lanka

CEB Unions defy President’s ‘threats’

Trade unions at the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) have vowed to press ahead with their industrial action, despite the threats issued by president...

Sri Lanka

NPP voters now admit they were deceived, says Duminda Dissanayake

SLFP general secretary Duminda Dissanayake says that people who had voted the NPP to power now admit that they have been badly deceived....