In what appeared to be an election outcome with numerous firsts, the ruling National People’s Power (NPP) swept the polls ...

President Dissanayake’s party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, including among Tamils and Muslims.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri ...

Anura Dissanayake’s NPP coalition has won a decisive victory in Sri Lanka’s snap elections, marking a significant shift in ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is following former Presidents – Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa – when it ...

STORY: Sudath Kumara and his wife Nilmini live in a house illegally built on state-owned land in Sri Lanka.They have nowhere ...

Dissanayake, an outsider of the family parties that have dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades, swept to power promising ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...

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 ...

Here is why the upcoming parliamentary election is so significant for newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

In the run-up to the general election, newly elected President Dissanayake asked voters to drive corrupt politicians out of parliament. Well the public has done just that. Now it is up to Dissanayake ...