Sri Lanka has sworn in 55-year-old leftist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president. There was no clear ...

Yet many Sri Lankans continue to demand fundamental change. It is not only swingeing austerity that angers them: they are ...

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has made major claims after winning in presidential polls.On Monday, the ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist president is expected to call a snap parliamentary election ahead of his plans to renegotiate the ...

His victory follows a period of both political and fiscal turmoil that led to former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ...

MP Harini Amarasuriya took the oath of office as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the 16th individual to hold ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president on Monday after an ...

MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, a distinguished academic, rights activist, and university lecturer has been sworn in as the 16th ...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Dissanayake, his X post had some serious message for Sri Lanka.

The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and ...

Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption.