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A Look At The 5 Key Candidates And What They Stand For

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A Look At The 5 Key Candidates And What They Stand For

Supporters of Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe attend his final election campaign rally. Colombo: Sri Lanka, which is slowly recovering from its worst-ever economic crisis, will vote to elect the next President on Saturday. The cash-strapped island nation is currently being led by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is seeking a re-election to continue with bold…

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Frontrunners, What’s At Stake, Implications For India

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Frontrunners, What’s At Stake, Implications For India

Sri Lanka’s 17 million voters will choose from among 39 candidates. The political landscape in Sri Lanka is set to change as its citizens elect a new President on Saturday. Sri Lanka’s 17 million voters will choose from among 39 candidates in the country’s first election after the people’s uprising of 2022, which led to…

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Prominent Tamil party in Sri Lanka seeks governance structure based on federal model

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Prominent Tamil party in Sri Lanka seeks governance structure based on federal model

Jaffna MP M.A. Sumanthiran. File | Photo Credit: R. Ragu The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK), a prominent political party representing Tamils of Sri Lanka’s north and east, has said it would consider backing a presidential aspirant who agrees to its demand for a governance structure based on a federal model. The party’s position, which…

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Sri Lankan Government Apologises For “Forced” Cremation Of Muslim Covid Victims

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Sri Lankan Government Apologises For “Forced” Cremation Of Muslim Covid Victims

Traditionally, Muslims bury their dead facing Mecca. (Representational) Colombo: Sri Lanka’s government Tuesday formally apologised to the island’s Muslim minority for forcing cremations on Covid victims, disregarding WHO assurances that burials in line with Islamic rites were safe. The cabinet issued an “apology regarding the compulsory cremation policy during the Covid-19 pandemic”, the government said…

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PhonePe Partners With LankaPay, Launches UPI In Sri Lanka

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PhonePe Partners With LankaPay, Launches UPI In Sri Lanka

PhonePe Group has also expanded into financial services, consumer tech businesses (Representational) Colombo: PhonePe on Wednesday announced a partnership with LankaPay to allow its users to pay using UPI across Sri Lanka. At an event to mark the collaboration, PhonePe said its app users travelling to Sri Lanka can make payments using UPI across LankaPay…

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Sri Lanka to hold presidential election between September 17 and October 16: Election Commission

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Sri Lanka to hold presidential election between September 17 and October 16: Election Commission

File picture of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka will hold presidential election between September 17 and October 16, the country’s top electoral body announced on Thursday. In a notice signed by its chairman R.M.A.L. Ratnayake, the Election Commission said it will call for nominations to hold the Presidential election…

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Tourism-reliant Sri Lanka faces backlash over new visa system

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Tourism-reliant Sri Lanka faces backlash over new visa system

 A fortnight after Sri Lanka switched to a new visa issuing system, authorities are facing a backlash over higher visa costs that could deter tourists, “Indian involvement”, and “corruption” in the subject minister’s push to outsource visa processing. Beginning April 17, 2024, Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration directed travellers to a new visa…

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Deep wounds in Sri Lanka five years since Easter bombings

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Deep wounds in Sri Lanka five years since Easter bombings

The New Wings activists take part in a silent protest demanding justice of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attack, in Colombo on April 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka marks on April 21 five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 279 people in the island’s deadliest suicide attack, but grieving families say they are…

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Sri Lankan media hit out at Modi’s Katchatheevu remarks

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Sri Lankan media hit out at Modi’s Katchatheevu remarks

A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. File | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR The Sri Lankan government is yet to comment on the recent remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Katchatheevu, but the island nation’s media took a critical view of the development, while fishermen’s associations urged Sri…

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Sri Lanka Cabinet did not discuss Katchatheevu issue: spokesman

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Sri Lanka Cabinet did not discuss Katchatheevu issue: spokesman

A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has not discussed the Katchatheevu issue so far as it was never raised, a government spokesman said in Colombo on April 2, after India’s ruling BJP blamed the Congress for ceding the tiny island to Colombo in 1974. “The Cabinet…

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