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By Kassapa  The presidential election may be over, Anura Kumara Dissanayake may be President but the political arena in Sri Lanka is still red hot, brimming with heat of the general election Dissanayake has called for November 14, six weeks...

By Vishvanth The political party that wins a presidential election usually goes on to win parliamentary polls held soon afterwards. Hence the winners of the presidency are in a mighty hurry to face general elections while their victory is still...

By Vishvanath History and politics are partial to winners. So is the media. It is therefore natural that the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his team have become the flavor of the season. The members of the new...

By Vishvanath Sri Lanka has had to get ready for a general election even before the dust has settled on the political front after a fiercely contested presidential election. The parliamentary election has been slated for Nov. 14, 2024. Political...

The people have spoken. In a historic verdict, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as the ninth Executive President of Sri Lanka. The results, declared on Sunday, was not without its share of drama: a count of preference votes for...

By Vishvanath The recently concluded presidential poll brought a protracted drought of elections to an end. The next parliamentary election is expected soon. The outcome of the presidential contest has left the public scratching their heads and asking why there...

By Vishvanath Sri Lanka goes to the polls on Saturday (21) to elect the ninth Executive President. All presidential elections are important, but tomorrow’s one could be considered more important than others, for it has come about amidst the country’s...

By Kassapa Arguably Sri Lanka’s most eagerly awaited presidential election-and potentially its last- reaches a climax on Saturday when the country goes to the polls in which the contest is realistically between President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition Leader and Samagi Jana...

   By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, September 18: The Maldives is a 100% Muslim country. But Buddhism was the dominant religion here for more than 1,000 years before the advent of Islam in 1153 AD. According to a website of the Maldivian government, the...

By Kassapa  A familiar theme from President Ranil Wickremesinghe when he hits the campaign trail now has been to suggest that his erstwhile deputy Sajith Premadasa is in third position in the presidential stakes and will lose out on even...

By Vishvanath Election campaigns have reached feverish pitch with only a few more days to go before the 2024 presidential election. All serious candidates have put out their election manifestos, but the public has grown so cynical that it is...

By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, September 14: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had alleged that the US would not have schemed to oust her from power if she had only handed over St.Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal to it. The...