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Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting. No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the ...
Learn about the candidates, electoral system, and background of the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election, scheduled for 21 September 2024. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate, along with other prominent figures such as Sajith Premadasa and Namal Rajapaksa.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation battling its ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more than 30 years ...
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.
Lankadeepa is a Sinhala-language daily newspaper in Sri Lanka, owned by Wijeya Newspapers. It covers politics, sports, entertainment and military, and has a weekend edition called Irida Lankadeepa.
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation long led by powerful political families which is ...
Lankapuvath has provided comprehensive coverage of Sri Lankan and foreign news, drawing on its network of over 30 countries worldwide, via an active link with the National News Agencies of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA Pool). [citation needed] Lankapuvath distributes news and images via the Internet, TV, SMS and mobile ...