It has been two days since the emergency law was lifted, but Puttalam town on Friday looked like a war zone with security forces deployed and army tanks parked around the town. The “grease yaka” ...

Mr. Baiz had arrived at the I.B.M. Hall polling booth in Puttalam town with his wife and three young children. When it came to his turn to mark the ballot paper, he had tried to get his daughter to ...