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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Sri Lankan Opposition legislator Shanakiyan Rasamanickam. File | Photo Credit: Twitter/@ShanakiyanR Sri Lankan Opposition legislator Shanakiyan Rasamanickam has threatened to launch a “China go home” campaign, akin to the ‘Gota go home’ movement that ousted the former President in the wake of the island’s painful economic crash. The popular 32-year-old MP, among the few Sri … Read more