Dissanayake won about 53 per cent of the million votes counted so far in the election, Sri Lanka’s Election Commission data ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has extended a post-election islandisland-wide Police curfew by six hours till 12 noon on Sunday (22) ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Sri Lanka's National People's Power, backed by the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, has taken ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, grabbed a commanding early lead on Sunday in his bid to become ...

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 ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who has promised to fight corruption and boost welfare, looks set to become Sri Lanka's next ...

A Sri Lankan leftist politician who’s pledged to fight corruption in the crisis-hit economy took a convincing early lead as ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka voted for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Thirty-eight candidates are running for president of the Asian nation of Sri Lanka, which is still recovering from a 2022 ...