Caught between domestic desperation and the manacles of foreign debt, Sri Lanka’s Marxist leader and newly elected president ...

Young Anura Dissanayake grew up amid lush paddy fields, ancient irrigation tanks and vegetable plots. Though a typical, happy ...

A fortnight later, when the votes were counted, Anura won a clear mandate, beating key challengers like Sajith Premadasa of ...

Rajan Philips It is no exaggeration to say that no previous Sri Lankan political leader has achieved what Anura Kumara Dissanayake accomplished this week. His leap from 418,553 (3.16%) in 2019 to ...

Mohan Mendis The 2019 and 2024 Sri Lankan presidential elections saw significant shifts in political leadership and voter ...

Voters who earlier backed other candidates and the usual smaller number from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) contributed ...

The Sunday Times learned that some of the vehicles have been given to members of the United National Party who backed Mr ...

The Freedom Party has made itself the country’s most popular party, with calls to bar asylum seekers. It is poised to come ...

In a message conveyed to the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Government of the Republic of ...

You could blame the Buddhist extremists of the majority Sinhalese population who led the first pogroms against the Tamil minority in 1958, or the Marxist insurrection that broke out in 1971 (30,000 ...

Israeli strikes on Beirut killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. Who will succeed the cleric who has been leading the ...