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 ...

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.

Sri Lanka is set to hold its presidential election on September 21, marking the first electoral process since the nation defaulted on its debt and declared bankruptcy in 2022. Nearly 17 million ...

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 ...