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 ...

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

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (November 10, 2024) assured Tamils that their land —currently held by state agencies — will be returned by his government.

The left in Sri Lanka has a history of antipathy towards the “Bretton Woods Twins”(World Bank and IMF) The JVP led NPP began to assiduously promote Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s presidential ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake known popularly as Anura and AKD became the new JVP leader What was remarkable about the leadership change was the smooth , non-confrontational manner in which it was done ...

On September 21, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected Sri Lanka’s president, representing a massive shift in voter sentiment since 2019, when he had garnered just 3.16 percent of the vote.

After Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and National People’s Power (NPP), was elected as Sri Lanka’s president on September 21, the local and ...

JAFFNA: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who addressed his first public meeting in Jaffna since coming to office in September, on Sunday took a firm stance against Indian fishermen ...

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.

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 ...