Sri Lanka is now holding elections to choose a new parliament. Voting will conclude at 4 p.m. local time, having started at 7 a.m. There are 8,800 contenders vying for 225 spots. Since President Anura ...

Sri Lanka began voting in a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his pro-poor policies as it ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (Nov 10) vowed to return land currently controlled by state agencies to Tamils in the country’s war-affected north and east.

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

Sri Lanka votes Thursday in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party's power in ...

Meanwhile, Dilith Jayaweera has also called on President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to establish a commission to investigate ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...

Speaking at an election rally of the National People’s Power (NPP)/Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) on October 24, President Anura Dissanayake declared: “There were no funds allocated for a ...

Colombo, October 29: February 2, 2014 was a red letter day in the life of Anura Kumara Dissanayake. It was on this day that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna's 17th national convention was held.

The names of JVP stalwarts such as K.D. Lalkantha, Tilvin Silva, Vijitha Herath, Sunil Handunneththi, Bimal Ratnayake and Anura Kumara Dissanayake were bandied about as potential successors.

“Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42% of the presidential vote ... from the opposition while remaining open to critique when necessary. “The people of Kadawatha have decided to send capable young ...