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Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka’s next president after he won the debt-ridden country’s first election since its economy collapsed in 2022. The ...
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Just over two years since Sri Lanka's 'Aragalaya' uprising that deposed the nation's president, the movement that sparked the mass ...
Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning Dissanayake promises change as his popularity soars. Sudipto Ganguly and Uditha Jayasinghe. September 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM. By Sudipto Ganguly and Uditha Jayasinghe ...
University of Kelaniya. Signature. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[a] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 2024. [1][2] He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People's Power.
Sri Lanka's poor and middle class want an equitable economic recovery that will support their aspirations, said Umesh Moramudali, who teaches economics at the University of Colombo. "The poor are ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
News 1st Digital launched its website, newsfirst.lk [16] in 2007. newsfirst.lk is Sri Lanka's first trilingual website and provides the latest news updates and breaking news in English, Sinhala and Tamil for local, business, political, lifestyle, entertainment and sports news. In August 2013, the newsfirst.lk English website was awarded a ...
By Sudipto Ganguly and Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankans will vote for a new president in a tightly contested election on Saturday, with the outcome expected to determine the fate ...