A. K. Dissanayake became the JVP’s fifth leader ten years ago in 2014. Under his leadership the JVP embarked on a historic journey resulting in the election of Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake who was a short lived cabinet minister in 2004-05 is now the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka. The story of Anura’s political ascendancy within the JVP and within the ...

Just as people in the south have begun to reject traditional political parties and leaders, a rejection is also needed in the north and east. It is no secret that a section of the Tamil population has ...

Is the Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) Presidency which came into power on a ‘reformist’ election platform able to legally justify the invocation of Section 12 of the Public Security Ordinance (PSO) ...

79th Birth Anniversary of Vijaya Kumaratunga on 9 October 2024. Kovilage Vijaya Anthony Kumaratunga, known to the world as Vijaya Kumaratunga, was born in Seeduwa on 9 October 1945. Vijaya was an ...

Sri Lanka’s ninth presidential election will take place one week from now on 21 September 2024. Among the 38 contestants, three are regarded as the top contenders. They are President Ranil ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake managed to obtain approximately 4.5 million of previous Gotabaya Rajapaksa voters. It does not look like their vote was guided by a dawn of moral conviction, effecting an ...

Sri Lanka’s ninth presidential election will be held on Saturday the 21st of September. More than 17 million (17,140, 354) Sri Lankans are registered as eligible voters. Nominally thirty-eight ...