Much publicity has been given to a recent incident where President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ‘acted swiftly to rescue a small girl’ lost in a large, milling crowd at an NPP election rally in ...

As Sri Lanka sank into economic collapse in 2022, a popular uprising led its then president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to flee the country. This weekend's election pits his successor, Wickremesinghe ...

The election is seen as a referendum on President ... Wickremesinghe wants to keep his job; the SLPP wants to mount a comeback. Sri Lanka voters seem to want radical change.

The JVP/NPP is attempting to win support in the local government elections in order to claim a renewed mandate even as it ...

On September 21, Sri Lanka will vote for its new President. What sets this election apart from previous ones is that it’s the first since the country went through its worst economic crisis two ...

COLOMBO: (Bernama-Xinhua) Voting for the presidential election in Sri Lanka kicked off on Saturday (Sept 21), with over 17 million registered voters to elect the South Asian country's president ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka's presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that ...

Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Source: AAP / Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP ...