Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday as the first openly transgender candidate, hoping ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will address the new parliament on November 21, following his party's landslide victory in ...

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

The sweeping mandate gives leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake the legislative power to push through his plans to ...

The JVP-NPP combine sweeps the Rajapaksa stronghold in the south, and the Tamil hardline areas in the north and reduces the ...

Two days short of his 79th birthday, two-times former president and two-times former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed on Saturday “not to quit politics” just as yet. This was Mahinda’s first ...

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

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

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's promise to hold corrupt officials accountable has fueled his public support.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake clinched a sweeping election victory, promising transformative leftist policies ...

In the past four years, the share of people living below the poverty line in Sri Lanka has risen to 25.9 per cent. The World ...

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