Sri Lanka holds its first parliamentary elections since the victory of its outsider leftist president, in a test of his ambitious pledges to combat corruption and rewrite an unpopular International ...

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 ...

Sri Lankans were voting in snap parliamentary elections Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party expected to secure a mandate to drive through economic reforms.

Sri Lanka's snap general election could expand President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's legislative power amid economic recovery ...

Sri Lankans have voted in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

The president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, was elected in September but his National People's Power (NPP) ...

Sri Lankans have held a parliamentary election that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to ...

A record 690 political parties and independent groups are in the fray across 22 electoral districts; results set for Friday ...

Voting for the snap parliamentary election drew to a close at 4 pm local time on Thursday in a largely peaceful manner across Sri Lanka. Counting would commence immediately after all ballot boxes are ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka began counting votes cast on Thursday in a snap general election that ... Show Full Article The president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, was elected in ...