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News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lankan Defense Budget Grows Despite Troop Reductions

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2025/03/sri-lankan-defense-budget-grows-despite-troop-reductions/

Published on: Monday 10 March 2025

Colombo’s selection of partners for weapons and training will be a significant strategic decision for the NPP government, which India views as pro-China. Sri Lankan President and Defense Minister ...

News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lanka: New Government Pledges Economic Reform, Justice

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/16/sri-lanka-new-government-pledges-economic-reform-justice

Published on: Thursday 16 January 2025

(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

News channel or source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/19/the-policies-of-sri-lankas-new-government-a-historic-opportunity-lost/

Published on: Tuesday 18 February 2025

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: One Year On: Sri Lanka’s Leftist NPP Government Falls Short of Expectations

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/features/2025/11/08/one-year-on-sri-lankas-leftist-npp-government-falls-short-of-expectations/

Published on: Saturday 08 November 2025

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: India and Sri Lanka’s Deep Sea Mining Deadlock

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2026/07/india-and-sri-lankas-deep-sea-mining-deadlock/

Published on: Thursday 09 July 2026

Regional geopolitical tensions and a legal stalemate are constraining both countries’ cobalt ambitions in the Afanasy Nikitin Seamount.

News Sri Lanka » Southern » Government: Sri Lanka: Ruinous Tax Policies Stoke Inequality

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/14/sri-lanka-ruinous-tax-policies-stoke-inequality

Published on: Tuesday 14 October 2025

Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and contribute to chronic underfunding of education and other public services. The government should ...