September 23, 2024, 04:36 PM - 3 min read
Sri Lanka’s Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, who lost to Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Saturday’s presidential election, garnered the highest share of the Tamil minority’s vote.
Read moreSeptember 21, 2024, 05:57 PM - 3 min read
Polling for Sri Lanka's presidential elections concluded peacefully on Saturday, with over 60% voter turnout reported by 2 PM, marking the first elections since the country's severe economic crisis in 2022, while incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces strong competition from Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa.
Read moreAugust 30, 2024, 04:35 PM - 2 min read
A total of 17.1 million registered voters, out of a total population of 21 million, are eligible to cast their ballots on the island for the September 21 presidential polls.
Read moreAugust 15, 2024, 05:02 PM - 2 min read
This will be the first election since Sri Lanka plunged into an economic crisis when the island nation declared sovereign default in mid-April of 2022, its first since gaining independence from Britain in 1948.
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