Two days short of his 79th birthday, two-times former president and two-times former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed ...

Dissanayake's NPP won nearly 62 percent of the vote in Thursday's election. This showed a clear hike from the 42 percent he ...

The National People's Power (NPP) party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has secured a landslide victory in Sri ...

The left-leaning coalition of newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won 159 of the legislature's 225 ...

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament.

Swinburne University of Technology’s Chulanee Attanaya discusses election prospects and implications for the Sri Lankan people.

Sri Lanka defaulted on $50 billion in external debt in 2022, pushing the populace towards an alternative candidate.

The National People’s Power won a parliamentary election that will allow the country’s new president to unroll his reform ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president wins over a two-thirds majority in parliamentary election.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president wins over a two-thirds majority in parliamentary election.

The NPP won 107 seats, receiving almost 62 per cent or 6.8 million votes in Thursday’s election, putting them past the ...