A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, following his election win, seeks economic consolidation and anti-corruption measures ...

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

SJB secretary claims party confident of massive victory, says government popularity on the wane The month-long campaign by political parties and groups ends at midnight tomorrow for Thursday’s ...

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.

NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is no mirror image of the first JVP leader, Rohana Wijeweera. Indications are that he and his seniors, upon taking control, steered the party to work within a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura ... Dissanayake went underground as the government stepped in to violently crush the insurrection, killing the group's leader Rohana Wijeweera ...

In a historic election, Sri Lankans have chosen Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist-Leninist politician, to lead their crisis-hit country. While it is not very usual for political paradigm shifts ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, has fervently urged his party’s candidates for the country’s Nov. 14 national parliamentary election to work for a “strong ...