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Imthiaz Bakeer Markar’s latest publication Hardha Sakshiya is a collection of his speeches made in Parliament over the years ...
Meanwhile, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was attending the Valdai Discussion Club in St Petersburg, Russia, ...
The NPP had won 151 local councils outright, but the party insisted it had both the political and moral right to form ...
Photo courtesy of Lanka Leader It has been 21 years since the murder of journalist Ayyathurai Nadesan. Nadesan is considered ...
Leading Tamil film actor Kamal Haasan -who is no stranger to Sri Lankan film fans – is very much in the news lately, for three reasons. Firstly the actor-politico will be elected in July to the Indian ...
01 Oct 2024 (NAMPA) Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has allocated 5 billion rupees (approximately 16.6 million U.S. dollars) to fund the parliamentary election scheduled for Nov. 14 ...
The party led two failed uprisings in the 1970s and 1980s that left more than 80,000 people dead, and it won less than four per cent of the vote in the previous parliamentary elections.
A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist ...
Reform UK recorded their best ever parliamentary election result in Scotland - with a 26% share of the vote.
Like the U.S. election in 2024, it was a bruising reminder that populism is resilient and sticky, and that liberal democracy has yet to find a reliable formula to defeat it. For Poland’s ...
Until Rahul Gandhi’s unequivocal admission in 2021 that the Emergency was a mistake, no Congress leader had explicitly ...
Conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki won Poland's presidential runoff election Sunday, according to official results released today. Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian and amateur boxer aligned ...