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Sri Lanka Polls: Frontrunners, What's At Stake, Implications For India
The political landscape in Sri Lanka is set to change as its citizens elect a new President on Saturday. Sri Lanka's 17 million voters will choose from among 39 candidates.
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Gunmen Fire On Buses Carrying Sri Lanka Voters, No Casualties
Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka on Saturday hours before polling in presidential elections got under way, police said.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa's Comeback Fails as Sri Lankan Voters Back Reforms
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's attempt to stage a comeback in Sri Lanka's general election has ended in defeat as results on Tuesday showed the alliance that toppled him making decisive gains.
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Sri Lanka Verdict: Maithripala Sirisena Trounces Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sworn-In as President
In a stunning verdict, Sri Lankan voters on Friday ousted President Mahinda Rajapaksa from power, ending a 10-year rule that was marked by allegations of family rule, corruption and authoritarianism and chose his one-time minister Maithripala Sirisena in his place.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa Faces Tough Test as Voting Ends with High Turnout
Sri Lankans today voted in large numbers in the tightest-ever presidential race in which incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa, seeking a record third term, is involved in a grim battle for survival.
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Full text: AIADMK's manifesto for 2014 general election
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the 2014 election manifesto gave the nation's voters a glimpse of what she could offer if she played a national role - free laptops, mixers and grinders, fans, cows and goats.
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In AIADMK's manifesto, Jayalalithaa's national ambitions, freebies for all
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today gave the nation's voters a glimpse of what she could offer if she played a national role - free mixers and grinders, fans, cows and goats.
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50 per cent turn out for polls in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated north
Over 50 per cent of voters today participated in the first polls in 25 years in Sri Lanka's Tamil-majority Northern Province to elect a council for the former war zone, four years after the rout of the rebel LTTE.
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Moderate polling in Sri Lankan provincial elections
Voter turnout was moderate in elections to Sri Lanka's three provincial councils, including the Tamil-majority Northern Province, where ballotting took place on Saturday.
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Fishermen surrender ration cards to protest Centre's 'attitude'
A section of local fishermen today surrendered their ration cards and voters identity cards to protest the Centre's 'unsympathetic attitude' to the plight of five Tamil Nadu fishermen detained in Sri Lanka for more than eight months on alleged drug smuggling charges, a Fishermen Association functionary said.
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Sri Lanka Polls: Frontrunners, What's At Stake, Implications For India
The political landscape in Sri Lanka is set to change as its citizens elect a new President on Saturday. Sri Lanka's 17 million voters will choose from among 39 candidates.
-
Gunmen Fire On Buses Carrying Sri Lanka Voters, No Casualties
Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka on Saturday hours before polling in presidential elections got under way, police said.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa's Comeback Fails as Sri Lankan Voters Back Reforms
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's attempt to stage a comeback in Sri Lanka's general election has ended in defeat as results on Tuesday showed the alliance that toppled him making decisive gains.
-
Sri Lanka Verdict: Maithripala Sirisena Trounces Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sworn-In as President
In a stunning verdict, Sri Lankan voters on Friday ousted President Mahinda Rajapaksa from power, ending a 10-year rule that was marked by allegations of family rule, corruption and authoritarianism and chose his one-time minister Maithripala Sirisena in his place.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa Faces Tough Test as Voting Ends with High Turnout
Sri Lankans today voted in large numbers in the tightest-ever presidential race in which incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa, seeking a record third term, is involved in a grim battle for survival.
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Full text: AIADMK's manifesto for 2014 general election
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the 2014 election manifesto gave the nation's voters a glimpse of what she could offer if she played a national role - free laptops, mixers and grinders, fans, cows and goats.
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In AIADMK's manifesto, Jayalalithaa's national ambitions, freebies for all
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today gave the nation's voters a glimpse of what she could offer if she played a national role - free mixers and grinders, fans, cows and goats.
-
50 per cent turn out for polls in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated north
Over 50 per cent of voters today participated in the first polls in 25 years in Sri Lanka's Tamil-majority Northern Province to elect a council for the former war zone, four years after the rout of the rebel LTTE.
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Moderate polling in Sri Lankan provincial elections
Voter turnout was moderate in elections to Sri Lanka's three provincial councils, including the Tamil-majority Northern Province, where ballotting took place on Saturday.
-
Fishermen surrender ration cards to protest Centre's 'attitude'
A section of local fishermen today surrendered their ration cards and voters identity cards to protest the Centre's 'unsympathetic attitude' to the plight of five Tamil Nadu fishermen detained in Sri Lanka for more than eight months on alleged drug smuggling charges, a Fishermen Association functionary said.
