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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The JVP led two uprisings in 1971 and 1987 ... The outgoing parliament was dominated by Mahinda Rajapaksa's party, Sri Lanka ...

Sri Lanka is voting today in the second national election in as many months. The snap parliamentary election was called by ...

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

This enabled Anura to spearhead a commendable political renaissance of the JVP led NPP. As is well known , Anura Kumara Dissanayake finished first in the presidential election held on 24 September ...

It is politically significant as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) comes full circle, poised to set up the next government ...