Over 70 per cent turnout was recorded in districts like Hambantota, Kandy, Vavuniya, Polonnaruwa, Mannar, Trincomalee, ...

Sri Lanka’s creditors (China being the largest) have to hope that the conservative Premadasa (a London School of Economics ...

Thirty-eight candidates are running for president of the Asian nation of Sri Lanka, which is still recovering from a 2022 economic collapse. Its incumbent president faces a tight race.

Between April and June 2024, the Sri Lankan economy grew faster than anticipated, giving a positive hue to the process which the country has undertaken ...

Over 17 million Sri Lankans will have the chance to vote for the country’s next president today (September 21) in a crucial ...

Namal Rajapaksa the presidential candidate and son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa cast his vote in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election He also e ...

Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday (today) to elect the South Asian nation's 10th president in the first election since ...

For the first time ever, it could produce a winner who fails to gain a majority of votes. Either a victory or a narrow defeat of the leftist NPP’s candidate could stoke tensions. Should either the NPP ...

The crisis, which led to widespread food and fuel shortages, prompted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022. The economic policy of Rajapaksa, followed by the onset of ...

In Sri Lanka, voting is underway for the Presidential elections. Over 17 million voters are eligible to exercise their ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe, a six-time prime minister, assumed office as interim president in July 2022 following Rajapaksa's removal. While the 75-year-old has been affiliated with the centre-right United ...