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Sri Lanka’s Opposition wears black in Parliament to protest politician’s murder

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Sri Lanka’s Opposition wears black in Parliament to protest politician’s murder

SJB legislator Mujibar Rahman. Videograb: YouTube/Parliamnet of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) on Thursday (October 23, 2025) wore black in Parliament to protest what it termed the government’s insensitive response to the killing of one of its local council chairmen. Lasantha Wickramasekera, who headed the Weligama local authority in the…

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Hartal held in Sri Lanka’s north and east seeking de-militarisation

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Hartal held in Sri Lanka’s north and east seeking de-militarisation

A symbolic hartal was observed on Monday [August 18, 2025] across Sri Lanka’s north and east, where a majority of the island’s Tamil-speaking people live, against militarisation that continues 16 years after the civil war ended. Many commercial and trading establishments in the Northern Province and Eastern Province remained closed during the morning hours, protesting…

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Sri Lanka parliamentary election: How the NPP won over country’s ethnic minorities

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Sri Lanka parliamentary election: How the NPP won over country’s ethnic minorities

A vendor displays newspapers for sale at a stall in Kandy on November 16, 2024. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition won a majority in snap parliamentary polls, provisional results showed on November 15. | Photo Credit: AFP The staggering mandate — over a two-thirds majority — that Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power [NPP] coalition…

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Decoding Sri Lanka’s parliamentary poll results | Live

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Decoding Sri Lanka’s parliamentary poll results | Live

Sri Lanka has witnessed a historic shift as President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ruling alliance secured a landslide victory in the November 14 general elections. This triumph not only shattered records of strong governments in the past but also made history by sweeping the ethnic minority-dominated regions of the north, east, and hill country. Our expert…

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Sri Lanka’s JVP vows to cancel Adani energy project if elected

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Sri Lanka’s JVP vows to cancel Adani energy project if elected

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, presidential candidate of Opposition political party National People’s Power. File | Photo Credit: AP The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) on Monday (September 16, 2024) vowed to cancel the Adani Group’s wind power project in Sri Lanka if it gets elected in the presidential election scheduled for the weekend. JVP leader Anura…

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‘Star wars’ in Sri Lanka as astrologers squabble over best date for celebrating Sinhala, Tamil New Year

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‘Star wars’ in Sri Lanka as astrologers squabble over best date for celebrating Sinhala, Tamil New Year

Demonstrators take part in a ritual of boiling milk to mark the Shinala and Tamil New Year during their protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in front of the Presidential secretariat, amid the country’s economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 14, 2022. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s government-backed traditional astrologers…

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