Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's tenth president by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya on Monday. With this, Dissanayake has officially become the first Marxist ...

Japanese Ambassador Mizukoshi Hideaki yesterday paid a courtesy call on the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

Also, two new studies this week add to existing research that has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body ...

The newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday appointed former Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ravi ...

Sri Lankan dollar bonds fell sharply on Monday as investors worry an election win by Anura Kumara Dissanayake could see him ...

The European Union on Monday congratulated Sri Lanka's first leftist president on his election, saying the bloc would continue to support the Indian Ocean island in its path towards economic recovery.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake a member of party that espouses Marxist policies centred on protectionism and state intervention ...

The Quad, says China’s foreign minister, is ‘a tool the U.S. uses to contain China and perpetuate U.S. hegemony.’ ...

Sri Lankans have elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the country's new president, giving the Marxist-leaning politician a key role in deciding the future of reforms in the debt-ridden nation that is ...

Marxist-leaning politician says he understands the complex challenges facing Sri Lanka and will work to meet people’s hopes.

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

Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...