Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country’s new, Marxist-leaning president to ...

Wednesday 13th November, 2024 Prices of all varieties of rice are soaring and the large-scale millers are laughing all the way to the bank. Successive governments have vowed to tame the Millers’ Mafia ...

Saturday 9th November, 2024 Large-scale rice millers, wholesalers and retailers continue to flout consumer protection laws ...

COLOMBO (Xinhua): Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Friday sought Myanmar's assistance in securing the release of Sri Lankans detained by cybercrime scammers and criminal gangs in ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with officials from the Agriculture and Trade Ministries, along with representatives from the Paddy Marketing Board, yesterday (25) at the Presidential ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) seems poised for victory. Based on the presidential election result, some are predicting that the general election will throw ...

Senior Professor Kapila Seneviratne has been appointed as the Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The official letter of appointment was handed ...

Organisers had invited President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to the conference, but he was not present, and the Prime Minister sent the message. The three ex-presidents discussed the topic of corruption, ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, has fervently urged his party’s candidates for the country’s Nov. 14 national parliamentary election to work for a “strong ...

This does not mean that the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (often referred to by his initials, AKD) of the National People’s Power (NPP) reflected a political consensus. At first look ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake. While Dissanayake did not secure a simple majority during the first round of counting for the presidential race, he led with 42.3 per cent in the second round.

There’s something so unique about the dry, wry Canadian sense of humour — and Guy Maddin‘s latest movie, Rumours, captures it perfectly. Set during a fictional G7 summit, Rumours sees ...