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Sri Lankan voters have given an emphatic mandate to the leftist Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) coalition. Seven weeks after the coalition’s Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lanka and the NPP’s First Year in Government
A year after Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) won the presidential election and his party, the National People’s Power (NPP), won a super-majority in the parliamentary elections, the country has made ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lanka: New Government Pledges Economic Reform, Justice
(Bangkok) – The government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, which took office on September 23, 2024, has promised to address longstanding human rights issues that have plunged Sri Lanka into ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: The Policies of Sri Lanka’s New Government: a Historic Opportunity Lost
On the right, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, President of Sri Lanka. On the left, Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s Minister of External Affairs. Photo: MEAphotogallery, Flickr, CC, Can you give us a quick ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lankan government delivers water to nearly 72,000 people suffering drought
COLOMBO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government has arranged for water to be delivered to nearly 72,000 people across seven districts as the country tackles a drought linked to this year's severe ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: JVP/NPP government in Sri Lanka preparing further attacks on workers amid growing crisis
As the global economic crisis intensifies, compounded by energy price hikes driven by the US-Israeli war against Iran, the JVP/NPP government in Sri Lanka is responding with harsher attacks on living ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: One Year On: Sri Lanka’s Leftist NPP Government Falls Short of Expectations
A year after the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) coalition won an unprecedented supermajority in Sri Lanka’s November 2024 parliamentary elections—with support from both the majority Sinhala and ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lanka: Tepid Progress on Justice for Past Abuses
The Sri Lankan government’s prosecution of past grave abuses has lagged, raising concerns for future progress, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. United Nations officials and UN ...
News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lankan government delivers water to nearly 72,000 people suffering drought
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government has arranged for water to be delivered to nearly 72,000 people across seven districts as the country tackles a drought linked to ...