Breaking with a seven-decade tradition, Sri Lankan Tamils flocked to the all-island National Peoples’ Power (NPP) party in preference to ethnic Tamil parties. Concern for good governance appears to ...

The Simla Agreement was signed on July 2, 1972, by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. It involved the return of 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war and areas of west ...

Expect partly sunny skies. The high will be 31° on this very humid day. Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 mb ...

To date, no single entity, whether global or otherwise, has extended funds and facilities to Sri Lanka the way India has done ...

ITAK reduced to eight seats By Shamindra Ferdinando The ruling National People’s Power (NPP) has achieved the unthinkable by ...

Dissanayake's NPP won nearly 62 percent of the vote in Thursday's election. This showed a clear hike from the 42 percent he ...

From spicy kothu and Jaffna-inspired crab curry to breakfast hoppers and choon paan bread, these’s no shortage of foodie ...

What happened was after the war we had a bloated military, and no government had the guts to start a national discussion ...

MDMK leader Vaiko expresses dismay over Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party victory, warning of potential ...

The significance of the Sri Lankan parliamentary election also lies in the extent and geographic span of the NPP’s victory ...

The JVP-NPP combine sweeps the Rajapaksa stronghold in the south, and the Tamil hardline areas in the north and reduces the ...

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament.