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Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections 2024: Dissanayake Aims to Convert Presidential Win into Legislative Power

Published : Nov 12, 2024 16:48 IST - 9 MINS READ Campaigning for the 10th parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka closed at midnight on November 11, with major political formations making fervent last-minute pitches to garner support from the 17 million voters. With many veterans, including former Presidents Ranil Wickremesinghe, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Mahinda Rajapaksa, shying away from contesting, Sri …

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2 months ago

Regardless of change in national politics, Tamils need strong representation in Parliament: Sumanthiran

The Hindu

COLOMBO Regardless of the decisive change in Sri Lanka’s national politics — with the election of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in September this year — the country’s Tamil people will need strong representation in Parliament to assert their rights and long-neglected demands, according to prominent Tamil politician M.A. If the new dispensation brings in far reaching changes in governance structure, the …

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6 months ago

A moderate voice for Sri Lankan Tamils

The Hindu

The recent passing of R. Sampanthan, a veteran leader of the Tamil National Alliance in Sri Lanka, has created a vacuum in the political leadership of the Tamils, who are yet to exit the trauma of the civil war that ended 15 years ago. Chelvanayakam, who founded the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi in 1949, Sampanthan was first elected in 1977 …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Which are the 26 parties in the INDIA combine, the face of Opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls?

The Hindu

July 26, 2023 07:34 pm | Updated October 03, 2023 12:52 am IST After high-stakes negotiations that started in April and two key meets in Patna and Bengaluru, 26 Opposition parties in the country, including two national and 24 regional parties, have managed to stitch together a grouping to fight the 2024 general elections against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Tamil National Alliance ‘categorically rejects’ Sri Lankan President’s offer of 13th Amendment minus police powers

The Hindu

The Tamil National Alliance on Tuesday “categorically rejected” Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s offer to implement the 13th Amendment sans police powers, terming his proposal for development and power devolution “another hollow promise”. ‘No police powers’ A small section in the 16-page dossier that dealt with devolution said that the 13th Amendment would be implemented “with the exception of police …

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1 year, 7 months ago

No agreement in devolution talks with President Ranil Wickremesinghe: Tamil National Alliance

The Hindu

Thetalks on power devolution between Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Tamil legislators yielded no positive outcome, according to the Tamil National Alliance, the largest grouping of MPs from the island’s north and east. The Tamil National People’s Front, which has two MPs, stayed out of the talks that it said were “simply aimed at appeasing the international community”. After …

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1 year, 10 months ago

The elusive political solution in Sri Lanka

The Hindu

Early February, a group of saffron-clad Buddhist monks gathered near the Sri Lankan Parliament and burnt a copy of the 13th Amendment. Tamils’ engagement Months into his unexpected Presidency, Mr. Wickremesinghe announced that he would ensure that the country’s long-pending ethnic question is resolved by February 4, 2023, the day Sri Lanka marked 75 years of its Independence from colonial …

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1 year, 11 months ago

As talks with Tamil parties drag, Ranil pledges full implementation of 13th Amendment

The Hindu

The Sri Lankan government will “fully implement” the 13th Amendment, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Sunday, making a familiar promise to the Tamils on the nearly 40-year-old legislation guaranteeing a measure of power devolution to the island’s provinces. His remarks come even as his government is engaged in talks with the Tamil political leadership to find a durable political solution …

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2 years ago

An Alliance fraught with challenges - The Hindu

The Hindu

For most of its two decade-existence, Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance has been engaged in talks with the southern Sinhalese leadership, to negotiate a durable solution to the island nation’s lingering national question. “We can’t despair, we can’t abandon things,” Mr. Sampanthan told The Hindu in 2018, when the Alliance joined a Constitution drafting process initiated by the President Maithripala …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties skeptical of Ranil’s outreach

The Hindu

Reaching out to Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties in Parliament on November 10, President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited them for a discussion this week, and pledged to resolve their pending issues before the island nation’s 75th Independence Day falling on February 4, 2023. Sumanthiran said despite known differences among Tamil parties, the TNA invited them for a discussion this week, “as we …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Model Thaw Nandar Aung who criticised Myanmar's military fears repatriation

The Hindu

A model from Myanmar who denounced her country's military rulers last year from the stage of a beauty pageant in Thailand said on September 23 that she fears she may be forced back home. Thai Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanee Sangrat confirmed in a text message that Thaw Nandar Aung was denied entry into Thailand “due to an issue with her …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Unresolved national question impaired Sri Lanka’s economic progress: Sampanthan

The Hindu

Addressing Sri Lanka’s Tamil national question is imperative for the island nation’s recovery from the crushing economic crisis it is facing, veteran Tamil leader R. Sampanthan said, contending that the unresolved issue had proved a major impediment for the country’s economic progress since Independence. While corruption, misgovernance, and skewed priorities have led to Sri Lanka’s current economic collapse, years of …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Tamil Nadu sends the first consignment of food, medicine, and other relief aid to Sri Lanka

The Hindu

When Tan Binh 99, the Panama-registered general cargo vessel left Chennai at 8.28 a.m. on May 19 with 9,000 tons of rice, 200 tons of milk powder, and 24 tons of essential medicines, it marked a first of sorts: A province in a developing country extending its assistance to another country. “Many more would have crossed over but for the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

‘They kept denying that there was a crisis’

The Hindu

Tamil National Alliance leader M.A. The Prime Minister said: “I was telling Sumanthiran, that you have to meet the TNA.” Then he said: “Oh, I have been meeting him many times.” Then, Mahinda said: “You have to meet the TNA properly.” Then, he told me that he would talk to the Prime Minister and fix a date. In response, Sambandan …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Indian power projects replace Chinese ventures in Sri Lanka

The Hindu

India will set up hybrid power projects in three Islands off Jaffna, effectively replacing the Chinese venture cleared by Colombo last year. In January 2021, Sri Lanka’s Cabinet decided to award renewable energy projects in Nainativu, Delft or Neduntheevu, and Analaitivu islands to Chinese company Sinosoar-Etechwin, following an Asia Development Bank-backed competitive bid. India will also help develop fisheries harbours …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa thanks India for ‘invaluable assistance’

The Hindu

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday thanked visiting External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar for India’s “invaluable assistance” to Sri Lanka, which is grappling with one of its worst economic crises. Following Mr. Jaishankar’s meetings with President Gotabaya, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa on Monday, Reuters news agency, citing “two sources” in Colombo, reported that Sri Lanka has …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Sri Lankan govt to set up special North-East development fund

The Hindu

COLOMBO The Sri Lankan governmentwill set up a ‘North-East Development Fund’ to increase investments in the war-affected areas, while probing cases of enforced disappearances and land grabs that remain chief concerns of the Tamil people 13 years after the war ended. The President meanwhile agreed to focus on four key areas, including possibly releasing long-term detainees under the country’s draconian …

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3 years ago

All at sea: India-Sri Lanka relations turn increasingly fragile

The Hindu

Two long-standing issues have added a new dimension to the complicated and fraught India-Sri Lanka relations. The issues are: Indian fishermen regularly crossing over to Sri Lankan waters and adopting bottom trawling method of fishing, which Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen claim ruin their livelihood; and the presence of Sri Lankan refugees in India. They are also arranging legal representation.” He …

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3 years ago

Zuma together with Gupta brothers embezzled public money to enrich now defunct media house: probe report

The Hindu

South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma along with Indian-origin Gupta brothers, who had "considerable" influence over him, misappropriated huge amount of public money, including diverting millions of rands to enrich the now defunct The New Age newspaper, according to a probe report on corruption during Mr. Zuma's tenure from 2009 to 2018. The first part deals with the Gupta family’s …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Sea rally in Sri Lanka demands implementation of laws against bottom trawling

The Hindu

Dozens of northern fishermen on Sunday set out on boats from the coast of the eastern Mullaitivu district to Point Pedro in Jaffna in the north, demanding that Sri Lankan authorities implement laws banning the destructive bottom trawling method of fishing. On October 13 the Sri Lankan Navy, arrested 23 Indian fishermen and seized two fishing vessels on charges of …

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3 years, 6 months ago

India ramps up engagement for Tamil rights in Sri Lanka

India Today

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday held two interesting meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting the importance that New Delhi places on issues such as negotiated devolution of powers for Sri Lankan Tamils and their aspirations for equality, justice, and peace. The citizenship of Sri Lankan refugees in the state, a permanent solution to the fishermen's issue, …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Sri Lanka Bans Tamil Remembrance of War Dead After Court Petitions by Gotabaya Rajapaksa-led Govt

News 18

Commemorations for Tamil Tiger rebels killed in Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war were banned on Friday after court petitions by the government of strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka’s 37-year conflict began in 1972 when Tamil Tigers waged a bloody war against government troops in a campaign for a separate homeland for their ethnic minority group. His government petitioned courts …

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4 years, 2 months ago

AEW hasn’t delivered on its promise of a revolution, but it has already reshaped wrestling landscape

Firstpost

AEW is nowhere near to challenging the hegemony of the WWE, it can take credit for changing the landscape of professional wrestling for both fans and athletes. All Elite Wrestling, the brainchild of some of wrestling’s hottest talent – Matt and Nick Jackson, Adam Page and former WWE star Cody Rhodes – and backed by billionaire Shahid Khan and his …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Which way Sri Lanka?

The Hindu

T he process of doing something all over again can be terrifying for some, especially for a minority group that had made some progress on its demands and was hopeful of an equitable future in a majoritiarian milieu. In his analysis of the Sri Lankan elections, Alan Keenan, senior consultant, International Crisis Group, said: “The explicitly pro-Sinhala and anti-minority rhetoric …

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Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections 2024: Dissanayake Aims to Convert Presidential Win into Legislative Power

Regardless of change in national politics, Tamils need strong representation in Parliament: Sumanthiran

A moderate voice for Sri Lankan Tamils

Which are the 26 parties in the INDIA combine, the face of Opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls?

Tamil National Alliance ‘categorically rejects’ Sri Lankan President’s offer of 13th Amendment minus police powers

No agreement in devolution talks with President Ranil Wickremesinghe: Tamil National Alliance

The elusive political solution in Sri Lanka

As talks with Tamil parties drag, Ranil pledges full implementation of 13th Amendment

An Alliance fraught with challenges - The Hindu

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties skeptical of Ranil’s outreach

Model Thaw Nandar Aung who criticised Myanmar's military fears repatriation

Unresolved national question impaired Sri Lanka’s economic progress: Sampanthan

Tamil Nadu sends the first consignment of food, medicine, and other relief aid to Sri Lanka

‘They kept denying that there was a crisis’

Indian power projects replace Chinese ventures in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa thanks India for ‘invaluable assistance’

Sri Lankan govt to set up special North-East development fund

All at sea: India-Sri Lanka relations turn increasingly fragile

Zuma together with Gupta brothers embezzled public money to enrich now defunct media house: probe report

Sea rally in Sri Lanka demands implementation of laws against bottom trawling

India ramps up engagement for Tamil rights in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Bans Tamil Remembrance of War Dead After Court Petitions by Gotabaya Rajapaksa-led Govt

AEW hasn’t delivered on its promise of a revolution, but it has already reshaped wrestling landscape

Which way Sri Lanka?