Ranil Wickremesinghe

An interview with a former President that led to public calls for a probe into the Batalanda Commission Report has finally prompted the government to reopen a dark chapter.

Sri Lanka has been taking an increasingly active role in the global discourse on climate finance for vulnerable economies. Will the new president continue these efforts?

The NPP obtained an unprecedented two-thirds majority in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections, benefitting massively from the opposition’s inertia and lack of imagination.

The opposition has not fully understood the public demand for change.

Above all, Sri Lankans voted for Anura Kumara Dissanayake due to his pledges to radically change the country’s corrupt political culture.

The growing support for Dissanayake, a center-left politician who ran on transparency and the working class, is a reflection of Sri Lanka’s broader societal unrest.

The election is seen as a referendum on President Wickremesinghe’s rule that has overseen a fragile recovery of the economy.

A close look at the leading candidates’ proposals reveals varying degrees of commitment to and understanding of the issues faced by women.

His alliance’s focus on the working class is expected to win the support of those struggling with the high cost of living.

The SLPP, the party of the Rajapaksas, has lost the support of around 130 MPs, 100 of whom are supporting incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The SLPP is hoping its strategy of fielding Namal will save the party from decimation in the parliamentary election that is due to follow.

The first election since the mass unrest in 2022 is likely to be a fiercely fought contest.

Exposing a large segment of a country's military officers to the thinking and training of a foreign power, especially one so near, can have significant consequences.

New Delhi pressed the refresh button by inviting the leaders from the island countries of the Indian Ocean region to Modi’s swearing-in.

In recent years, elections have been repeatedly postponed. Will that be the fate of the presidential election too?

It underscores yet again the inconsistent and ad hoc foreign policy under President Ranil Wickremesinghe's leadership.

The Yukthiya operation appears to be a last-ditch effort by the present Sri Lankan government to salvage public support ahead of the pivotal 2024 presidential election.

Wickremesinghe wants to keep his job; the SLPP wants to mount a comeback. Sri Lanka voters seem to want radical change.

A deal with Huawei Technologies, which is blacklisted in the United States, is unlikely to please the Americans.

How will the bombshell charge that the Rajapaksas were complicit in the 2019 Easter bombings impact Sri Lankan politics? 

The outcomes of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe's visit to India faced criticisms over a lack of transparency and potential threats to sovereignty.

Last year’s economic crisis crippled the island nation, but it also provided India an opening to offset some of the inroads that China has made in Sri Lanka.

Since an economic crisis hit the country last year, New Delhi has reminded Colombo who its real friends are.

Perhaps the path to reconciliation is a new amendment to the constitution, something most people can agree to.