Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday.

Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP), ...

Voting for the presidential election in Sri Lanka concluded peacefully on Saturday afternoon, with the counting of the votes ...

Roughly 17 million Sri Lankans are heading to the polls in the first election since one of the country’s worst financial ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has lifted an island-wide post-election Police curfew at 12 noon on Sunday (22), local media said ...

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

It was the first time in Sri Lanka's history that the presidential race was decided by a second round of counting.

Outgoing President Ranil Wickremesinghe – who took office at the peak of the 2022 economic collapse and imposed tough ...

Dissanayake’s victory, rooted in his image as an agent of change, now faces the reality of governing a nation facing ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election will be held on Saturday with 38 candidates vying for the debt-ridden South Asian nation's ...

Sri Lanka is voting on September 21 to elect a new president. India is closely observing the polls in the strategically ...