Uditha Devapriya and Umesh Moramudali on Sri Lanka’s ongoing political realignment.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake pledges to return Tamil lands, hold elections, and address key concerns in Sri Lanka.

Leading political parties, mostly in the Sinhala speaking south, are known to loudly proclaim the need to elect more women to ...

Sri Lanka concluded its Presidential election on 21 September and elected a new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the NPP, which resulted in the dissolution of the Parliament before its maturity ...

Sri Lanka’s September 21 presidential election – the first since the protests in 2022 that ousted former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa – has been praised for the lack of election violence and ...

Priyantha Weerasuriya said the Sri Lanka Police now operates in an environment conducive to enforcing the law impartially and ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has generally seen anti-Indian sentiment rise close to its elections, but this has been notably ...

Dr Bilesha Weeraratne is a Research Fellow and Head of Migration and Urbanisation Research at IPS. Prior to re-joining IPS in ...

We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has on Friday charged an “Iranian asset Farhad Shakeri,” who is accused in a plot to ...

The public appears to be pleased with most of the measures the president and the interim cabinet have taken. Yet there is ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...