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TopicSri Lankan Presidential elections

Topic: Sri Lankan Presidential elections

Sri Lankan President says won’t resign, but ready to hand over govt to whoever proves majority

26 cabinet ministers resigned Sunday, amid rising public anger against the govt over the economic crisis. President Rajapaksa invited opposition parties to join the cabinet and find solutions.

Raja Mohan wants ‘reset’ in India-Sri Lanka ties, Centre ignores maternal health – J Drèze

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

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.

Indian Tamil, two monks, a former actor — line-up for Sri Lanka’s Presidential election

Sri Lanka will vote on 16 November to elect its President from among 35 candidates — a record number, making it the country’s most expensive election.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?