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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TopicSri Lankan elections

Topic: Sri Lankan elections

Ranil, Oppn leader in Sri Lanka presidential race with ‘wild card’ Marxist & Rajapaksa scion

Vandana Menon -
Voters in Sri Lanka have to rank up to 3 candidates in order of preference. Candidate with 50% votes is declared winner; if nobody gets clear majority, race will boil down to top two candidates.

Ranil Wickremesinghe is Sri Lanka’s next Prime Minister

ThePrint Team -
The 73-year-old United National Party (UNP) leader was the country’s premier before, in 1993-94.

Mahinda Rajapaksa brings family rule to Sri Lanka. All eyes on his India-China balancing act

Nayanima Basu -
PM Narendra Modi didn't even wait for the final results of Sri Lanka's parliamentary election before calling Mahinda Rajapaksa to congratulate him on his victory.

Trump’s hasty NATO retreat and Britain’s Christmas election trees

Fiza Jha -
The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

New Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to visit India 29 November

PTI -
Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, who is in Sri Lanka, said Gotabaya Rajapaksa had accepted PM Modi's invitation.

Another strongman Rajapaksa returns to Sri Lanka, raising fears of tilt to China

Anusha Ondaatjie -
There are fears a Rajapaksa victory could threaten Sri Lanka’s fragile democratic progress and see a return to the old authoritarian ways.

Sri Lankan presidential polls: Gotabaya set for win as ruling party’s Premadasa concedes

PTI -
Final results are yet to be announced but the ruling party candidate, Sajith Premadasa, congratulated former war general, Gotabaya Rajapaksa on winning the election.

Sri Lanka’s wildly incompetent President keeps getting worse

Taylor Dibbert -
Maithripala Sirisena eschews responsibility at every turn. He has no leadership qualities and has been out of his depth since January 2015.

Sri Lanka’s cup of woes overflows as national politicians slug it out in the local elections

N Sathiya Moorthy -
The acrimonious campaign for the local government elections indicates the end of the road for the government of ‘National Unity’ in Sri Lanka.

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Opinion

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Shabnoor Rahman -
Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

More and more POCSO cases are being settled by victim-accused marriages

UPSC Civil Services Exam has been reduced to a memory test. That’s not how you select officers

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

Saksham Thakur -
China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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