Tag: by Upul Joseph Fernando

Anura Kumara and the NPP government seem to be talking about the China visit with more fanfare than Anura’s India ...

Ranil Wickramasinghe, a rigorous critic of Hambanthota Port, became prime minister in 2015 and, to the surprise of countries such ...

Previous week the cabinet approved the signing of an MOU with China's Xinhua News Agency for the state-run media outlet ...

After his victory in the 1988 presidential election, Ranasinghe Premadasa described his mandate as being akin to holding a "two-pronged ...

After the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987, successive Sri Lankan heads of state visiting India consistently assured Indian ...

In Sri Lanka, years ending in 5 have often been marked by extraordinary political events.Following independence in 1948, 1955 was ...

If S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike had not left the UNP to form the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), politics in Sri Lanka ...

It was Ranasinghe Premadasa who introduced mobile phones to Sri Lanka. In those days, the first mobile phone in Sri ...

A Speaker and Deputy Speaker were sent home because of fake degrees ‘Only his beard is real. Everything else is ...

The first Sri Lankan election where media freedom emerged as a central slogan was the 1994 general election. While media ...