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Sri Lanka

Protest near parliament as president presents budget

Teachers and principals in service and in retirement held a protest near the parliament access road at Polduwa Junction this afternoon (07) demanding...

Politics

Signaling left, turning right: NPP’s inevitable awakening

By Vox Civis Karma has a funny way of catching up. The very people who laughed at and mocked former President Ranil Wickremesinghe...

Opinion

One year of NPP governance: Silence on Tamil aspirations and uncertainty over provincial council elections

By Raj Sivanathan More than a year has passed since the National People’s Power (NPP) government came into office, yet many of Sri...

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...