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

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament and called for a parliamentary election in an ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka's private credit surged 135 billion rupees in August 2024, up from 60 billion rupees in July, with credit to ...

It was a happy Aldoris, the choon- paan karaya, who came down the lane, with his signature tune louder than the usual volume. “Jayawewa, api denum (Jayawewa, we won),” he said joyfully, as he came to ...

AFP: Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt ...

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

Sri Lanka's newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a snap general ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s biggest task is to pull the country out of its current economic crisis; Amit Shah’s comments on ...

It was strongly argued before the Presidential election that a party like the National People’s Power (NPP) led by Anura ...

The janatha aragalaya (people’s struggle in Sinhala) that convulsed Sri Lanka in 2022 summer sought to shake up the country’s ...