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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans voted in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party's power and follow through ...
Fracas in Parliament Speaking during a timely panel discussion on “How urgent are urgent bills?” organized by the Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) and held in Colombo this week, M.A.
The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took a large lead Friday in early results from the parliamentary elections, in an apparent solid mandate for his ...
Fighting broke out among lawmakers in Sri Lanka's parliament after weeks of political turmoil over who should lead the country. MPs rushed on to the floor of the house, a day after a motion of no ...
Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House, Bimal Rathnayake, was elected as the Chair of the Sri Lanka-China Parliamentary Friendship Association for the Tenth ...
For over three decades, successive governments in Sri Lanka failed to act against perpetrators ... But the report was not presented to parliament. Nobody has been punished for the unspeakable ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Sri Lanka on April 5, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced while delivering a statement in Parliament on Friday. Announcing the date of PM Modi ...
Vijay Thanigasalam, a member of the Provincial Parliament who fled Sri Lanka during the decades-long civil war when he was a child, authored the bill (archived link). The South Asian island nation ...