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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 » Uva » 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 ...
News Sri Lanka » Uva » Government: Sri Lanka bans single-use plastic bottles at government events, charges for plastic bags
News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/sri-lanka-bans-single-use-plastic-bottles-at-government-events-charges-for-plastic-bags/
Published on: Monday 08 June 2026
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a bid to control the excessive use of plastic bottles, Sri Lanka banned single-use plastic water bottles at government institutions effective ...