Sri Lanka already being a parliamentary democracy, such radical ruptures were not really required. As a result, the Councils remained subject to Ministerial directives. That did not, however, hinder ...

Most of Sri Lanka’s development work in future will take place under the provincial councils under a cabinet proposal, according to Deputy Minister of Policy Planning and Economic Affairs, Harsha de ...

India has been pressing Sri Lanka to implement the 13th amendment which was brought in after the Indo-Sri Lankan agreement of 1987. Jaishankar also met Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda.

COLOMBO: The four-year term of the 340 local councils in Sri Lanka is set to end on Sunday night, but the polls monitoring groups feel that the local body polls fixed for April 25 are unlikely to ...

The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), a pseudo-left organisation in Sri Lanka, is advocating the formation of “people’s councils” and “a people’s government” as a false solution to the ...

Sri Lankan provincial councils, including the Tamil-dominated Northern, will not have discretion over land and police matters and they will have to operate within the existing limits of power, a ...

The Catholic councils will have representatives from the Bishops Conference and will comprise 20 members, while the Hindu council will have the head of the Sri Lanka Ramakrishna mission and kurukkals.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met the Tamil leadership in Sri Lanka and discussed issues pertaining to the development and devolution and the role of provincial councils as ...