While analysts welcome the increase, they caution that more women in politics alone won’t challenge patriarchal norms and ...

The Sunday Times contacted the lawyers of former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Asia Pacific Golf Courses Ltd. to get a copy of their submissions to Court. But they said the copies ...

Sri Lanka is currently on a path to establishing a government free of injustice, nepotism, fraud, bribery, and all forms of ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

OPINION- My adopted country of Sri Lanka recently held presidential elections. While I lived there, from 2002 to 2016, Chandrika Kumaratunga was president (1994-2005).

The defeat led to a formal split in the UNP with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) emerging as a separate outfit under Sajith ...

So did media activists when appointed to plum posts in state media institutions. As way back in the mid-1990s, soon after the ...

Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis over the issue of powers of President Chandrika Kumaratunga shows no signs of subsiding with the President insisting that her previous order to take control of a ...

President Chandrika Kumaratunga is again at loggerheads with the government over selection of members to the crucial Police Commission which is expected to ensure that the police force is free and ...

Her younger daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga, later became the country’s first and only female president, holding office from ...

Though he was a minister briefly when the JVP became part of a coalition government during the presidency of Chandrika Kumaratunga in the early 2000s, Dissanayake's supporters say he is not ...

The key issue at the forthcoming parliamentary election should be economic recovery, based on the IMF formula, or whatever an ...