The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament.

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Jayantha Perera After completing my Ford fellowship at Oxford University in 1991, I joined the Indus River Left Bank Outfall ...

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The trawler named “Udayanga Putha” with 11 Sinhalese on board was intercepted on Saturday (13) by a Fast Naval Patrol Craft attached to the Southern Naval Command. They are residents of Tangalle and ...

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We need to understand why this particular party, with this person at its head, was elected by the people. More importantly ... The families of those who died, regardless of whether they are Sinhalese ...