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​More of the same: On the Sri Lankan President’s India visit
1 week ago

​More of the same: On the Sri Lankan President’s India visit

The Hindu  

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to India, also his first overseas trip in keeping with tradition, marks a continuity in India-Sri Lanka bilateral relations. Mr. Dissanayake’s assurance that Sri Lanka will not permit its territory to be used in any manner inimical to India’s security and regional stability, on the face of it, appears to be a reiteration …

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Sri Lankans vote in parliamentary election
1 month, 1 week ago

Sri Lankans vote in parliamentary election

Deccan Chronicle  

Colombo: Sri Lankans on Thursday began voting in the snap parliamentary election, the first major test of the ruling National People's Power party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.The voting is taking place at over 13,314 polling stations across the country. Sri Lankans on Thursday began voting in the snap parliamentary election, the first major test of the ruling National …

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Sri Lanka set for parliamentary election, all arrangements in place
1 month, 1 week ago

Sri Lanka set for parliamentary election, all arrangements in place

New Indian Express  

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is set to hold its parliamentary election on Thursday with all arrangements in place to ensure a fair and transparent process, a top election commission official has said. Director General of the Elections Commission Saman Sri Ratnayaka on Tuesday said that all ballot boxes and other equipment needed at the polling stations would be dispatched on Wednesday. …

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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake: A New Era of Reform Amid Economic Turmoil in Sri Lanka
2 months, 2 weeks ago

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake: A New Era of Reform Amid Economic Turmoil in Sri Lanka

The Diplomat  

National People’s Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka on September 23. The growing support for Dissanayake, a center-left politician often wrongly labeled as a “Marxist” by the international media, is a reflection of Sri Lanka’s broader societal unrest. The political dynasty of the Rajapaksas was at the center of Sri …

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Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change

Al Jazeera  

Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. Back then, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the Marxist outfit that the country’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, now leads, was reviled in swaths of southern Sri Lanka for having twice attempted violent revolution. The “curse” essentially, was the population having allowed political elites, largely organised into Sri Lanka’s two main …

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IMF to begin talks with new Lanka government led by President Dissanayake
3 months ago

IMF to begin talks with new Lanka government led by President Dissanayake

The Hindu  

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it will discuss the timing of the next review of Sri Lanka’s loan programme and looks forward to working with the new government headed by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. “We look forward to working together with President Dissanayake and his team towards building on the hard-won gains that have helped put Sri Lanka …

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Ranil Wickremesinghe bids an emotional farewell to Lanka presidency
3 months ago

Ranil Wickremesinghe bids an emotional farewell to Lanka presidency

Hindustan Times  

Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe who lost Sri Lanka's presidential election on Sunday bid an emotional farewell to his 26 months job as the island nation's president and handed over the care of the "child" called Sri Lanka to president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Ranil Wickremesinghe bids an emotional farewell to Lanka presidency “President Anura Dissanayake, I am handing over to your …

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Sri Lanka’s presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom
3 months ago

Sri Lanka’s presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Two years ago, food cart worker Fathima Shiyama had to wait in line, sometimes for days, to get cooking gas, fuel and other essentials. Fathima Shiyama, 48, prepares local delicacies at home, to be sold later from her food cart, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. A man sits next to election posters of …

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What’s at stake in Sri Lanka’s first presidential vote since its economic meltdown?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

What’s at stake in Sri Lanka’s first presidential vote since its economic meltdown?

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its economic collapse in 2022, which provoked mass protests and forced the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign. Almost 17 million of …

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Wickremesinghe, Alahapperuma, and Dissanayake in race for Sri Lanka presidency
2 years, 5 months ago

Wickremesinghe, Alahapperuma, and Dissanayake in race for Sri Lanka presidency

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka will witness a three-cornered race for presidency on Wednesday, as the island awaits a new leader and government after an astounding people’s uprising ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa last week. But, some of its legislators have, more recently, been sitting “independently” in the House, apparently distancing themselves from the Rajapaksa clan and their party, widely discredited during Sri Lanka’s devastating …

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Sri Lanka Crisis Latest Updates Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Four leaders In Fray President Post SLPP Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dullas Alahapperuma
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka Crisis Latest Updates Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Four leaders In Fray President Post SLPP Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dullas Alahapperuma

ABP News  

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four leaders who have joined the race to become the country's next President as the lawmakers met on Saturday to begin the process of choosing another president to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after facing unprecedented protests …

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Sri Lanka's new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe assumes office for sixth time, Opposition refuses to extend support
2 years, 7 months ago

Sri Lanka's new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe assumes office for sixth time, Opposition refuses to extend support

Firstpost  

Opposition parties in Sri Lanka say that appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as the prime minister has been made with ‘zero regard’ to the voice of people of the country Colombo: Ranil Wickremesinghe assumed office as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the sixth time on Friday even as Opposition parties SJP and JVP announced that they will not extend …

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