His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987 ... The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former ...

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

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

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

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident ... referring to the National People’s Power ...

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

Similarly, the NPP, which is led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP or People’s Liberation Front), must ... The two ...

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

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President Anura Dissanayake faces a range of key political risks and challenges, particularly given ...

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

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

Forming a part of the JVP’s violent history is the bombing of the Sri Lanka parliament on August 18, 1987, a period of political turmoil. By then, the JVP had launched its second armed rebellion, ...