Tag: by Upul Joseph Fernando

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 ...

During the period of suppression of the JVP under the Premadasa government, most of the JVP politburo members were killed. ...

The JVP won the largest number of MPs in Sri Lanka for the first time in the 2004 general election, ...

‘I ended up here because I failed to govern the country for 5 years. Now, two years later, I am ...

The revocation of the tourist ban in the Arugam Bay area by the United States, just a day before the ...

Upali Jayaweera, a second-tier leader of the JVP (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna), rose to prominence in the party’s Central Committee after ...