A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...

This snap election, called by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, comes at a critical time for Sri Lanka, which is still ...

Former Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan has been summoned to the Criminal ...

Who is Sri Lanka’s first transgender parliamentary candidate? - Chanu Nimesha, 49, is determined to make politics more ...

Colombo, Nov 13 (PTI) Sri Lanka is set to hold ... who lost to Dissanayake in last month’s presidential election, is not contesting the parliamentary election for the first time since 1977. The ...

The vote comes less than two months after Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake won September's presidential election.

President Aruna Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected as President in September, is seeking a majority so that most of the policies of his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna can get parliamentary approval ...

Sri Lanka will vote in a snap general election on Thursday, called by new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to secure a ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party's power in Thursday's parliamentary ...

Millions of Sri Lankans are set ... parties to stay out of race. Namal Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, ...

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