President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party had just three seats in the outgoing assembly ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on September 21 in a victory that marked a rejection of the ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankans were voting in snap parliamentary elections Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987, leading to at least 80,000 deaths, but Mr Dissanayake was sworn in ...

Sri Lankans are voting in snap parliamentary elections. President Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) party seeks a ...

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

Sri Lanka’s new president has called for a snap general election today. Anura Dissanayake, 55, who took power in September on ...

When his party introduces legislation that will benefit the people ... Similarly, the NPP, which is led by the Janatha ...

Whether their wishes will be granted remains to be seen. President Dissanayake and his party, the JVP-led NPP, have embarked on a mission to ‘cleanse’ Parliament. Ironically, the JVP/NPP has been an ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday (Nov. 14) voted in snap parliamentary elections, in which the new leftist President Anura Kumara ...

Millions of Sri Lankans voted Thursday to choose a new parliament in a key election that will decide if the country’s new ...