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Monday, November 17, 2025
TopicSri Lankan elections

Topic: Sri Lankan elections

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

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

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

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

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

New Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to visit India 29 November

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

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

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

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

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

On Camera

Bihar rejected Rahul Gandhi’s divisive politics. Voters are nobody’s fools

Voters in Bihar don’t want dynastic politics, minority politics, or caste politics—all dead ducks flogged by the Congress Party in its regressive, divisionary, divisive game.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.