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Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2024: What’s at stake?

Here is why the upcoming parliamentary election is so significant for newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka President Eyes Parliament Win In Snap Election

Sri Lanka votes Thursday in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover from a crushing defeat at presidential polls.

International Business Times

Marxist-leaning Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s election: What’s next?

From an IMF deal he wants to renegotiate to parliamentary elections, president-elect faces key challenges.

Al Jazeera

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Sri Lanka election 2024: Who could be the next president, what’s at stake?

Economic issues top the agenda as the island country of 22 million goes to the polls to elect its 10th president.

Al Jazeera

Could Marxist Anura Dissanayake become Sri Lanka’s next president?

His party, the JVP, twice fought violent battles to overthrow the very Sri Lankan state that he now wants to run.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lankans' fury forced the powerful Rajapaksa clan out. Now its heir is running for president

The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election next week

The Independent UK

Record 39 candidates to run in Sri Lanka’s presidential election

Economy remains key issue after protesters angered by financial crisis toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022.

Al Jazeera

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Sri Lanka President Faces Tough Challengers In Elections

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces 38 challengers in polls next month, the election commission said Thursday after nominations closed, with ally-turned-rival Sajith Premadasa leading the pack.

International Business Times

Bangladesh protests are not the first time student uprisings have helped bring about radical change

In Bangladesh, weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a broad uprising that forced the prime minister to flee the country and resign

The Independent UK

Namal Rajapaksa To Contest Presidential Election In Sri Lanka

Namal Rajapaksa announced as presidential candidate in Sri Lanka amid economic challenges and political rivalries. Election holds significance for the nati...

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Son of Sri Lanka’s ex-leader Mahinda Rajapaksa to run for president

Governing party nominated Namal Rajapaksa to challenge incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe in the September 21 election.

Al Jazeera

Heir apparent to Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa family will run in September's presidential election

The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election in September

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka loses 10 percent of its doctors amid exodus after economic crisis

Sri Lanka’s doctors have migrated en masse to other nations in the past two years, crippling hospitals.

Al Jazeera

Star wars: Sri Lanka’s powerful astrologers split over auspicious dates

Group employed by government divided for first time over best date for new year rituals

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The Guardian - UK

Previous Sri Lanka government accused of blocking investigation into Easter bombings

The 2019 attacks killed 269 people, but investigators say search for answers obstructed under ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa

The Independent UK

Former Sri Lankan president denies that suicide bombings were staged to enable his election

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has denied allegations in a British television program that Islamic State-inspired extremists were used to carry out suicide bomb attacks in 2019 to create insecurity in the country and help him win election later that year

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka government to investigate allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

Sri Lanka's government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings

The Guardian - UK

Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings review – startling and deeply disturbing viewing

This chilling Dispatches documentary reports on the aftermath of 2019’s apparently random terrorist attack, and alleges unpalatable truths

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The Street

Sri Lanka’s Economic Collapse: A Timeline

Starting around 2016, Sri Lanka's economy was beset by a series of fiscal and economic policy missteps. The COVID-19 pandemic only worsened an economy plagued by mismanagement, trade deficits, and weak foreign reserves. By September 2022, Sri Lanka turned to the International Monetary Fund for ...

The Hindu

Facing the heat for an interview is a part of every journalist’s life

A journalist’s job — to present the first draft of history — is incomplete if it only presents one state-approved view

360info

How Sri Lanka sleepwalked over a debt cliff

The issues that led Sri Lanka to become an economic basket case in 2022 serve as a warning for other nations.

360info

Creditors, politicians and 'morons': who's really caught in the government debt trap?

When nations get caught in spiralling debt, it’s future generations who will end up paying the price.

AFP

Canada bars Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa brothers over rights abuses

Colombo (AFP) - Canada has issued a travel ban on former Sri Lankan presidents -- and brothers -- Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for human rights abuses committed during the island nation's civil war.

Al Jazeera

Canada sanctions ex-Sri Lanka presidents Mahinda, Gotabaya

Sanctions are over human rights violations committed during armed conflict in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009, Canada says.

Dynamite News

Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee Offers Payers For Speedy Recovery Of PM Modi's Mother Heeraben

India on Thursday called on Pakistan to protect its minorities after the killing of a Hindu woman Daya Bheel in Sindh province. Read on for details:

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