Sajith Premadasa gets highest share of Tamil vote in Sri Lanka polls
Sri Lanka’s Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, who lost to leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Saturday’s ...
For Sri Lanka's minority Tamils, election does not offer hope
Tamils form 12% of the country's 22 million population, but have long been electorally sidelined, as most candidates belong ...
For Sri Lanka's minority Tamils, election offers little hope
STORY: Tamils in Sri Lanka have little hope that Saturday's (September 21) presidential election will improve their lot. This ...
Sri Lankan presidential election: Sordid manoeuvres by the Tamil capitalist parties
Whatever their tactical differences, their common aim is to pressure the next government for greater powers and privileges ...
Protests ousted Sri Lanka’s last president. Ahead of new election, many are still waiting for change
Wickremensignhe’s main challengers — opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and parliamentarian Anura Dissanayake, a surprise top ...
Tamil Nadu Cm Stalin writes to Centre over heft fines on fishermen arrested by Sri Lanka
CHENNAI: Expressing anguish over the arrest of 37 Tamil Nadu fishermen and confiscation of their boats on September 21, Chief ...
The Sri Lankan elections: JVP assumes responsibility for defending capitalism amid a deepening revolutionary crisis
The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major ...
Sri Lanka's plantation workers live on the margins. But politicians still want their votes
Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...