Speaking at the May Day rally of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna in Galle today, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that UNP keeps …
May 072018
Feb 132018
After its electoral setback in local council elections, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) has been plunged into a crisis with the premier facing pressure to give up the party leadership. This was following a reported request by President Maithripala Sirisena to …
Feb 112018
Former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s SLPP is heading towards a landslide victory at the local government election garnering, 45 per cent of the majority votes, media reports said. Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition yesterday faced its first polls test with over 15 million eligible voters participating in …
Feb 102018
Former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa led SLPP is expected to win the local government elections based on the results so far. According to unofficial results from various districts where polls were held yesterday, Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) is expected to win a majority of the …
May 072017
During the last week of April 2017 Sri Lanka saw a storm of challenges, political challenges that were thrown at Mahinda Rajapaksa to fill Galle Face …
Feb 052017
ECONOMYEXT – Sri Lanka’s economic policy slid deeper into state interventionism and away from the ‘social market economy’ that was promised, …
Jan 242017
For the past two years, Sri Lanka has been undergoing a democratic transition. On January 8, 2015, the regime led by Mahinda Rajapaksa was …
Jan 232017
For Sri Lanka, 2015 was a major turning point that saw voters reject a corrupt and authoritarian regime led by Mahinda Rajapaksa and move …