The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament.

The National People’s Power won a parliamentary election that will allow the country’s new president to unroll his reform ...

The sweeping mandate gives leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake the legislative power to push through his plans to ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's promise to hold corrupt officials accountable has fueled his public support.

As Sri Lanka heads to the polling booths today to make a significant decision on whether to cement the "new era of politics" ...

Sri Lanka began counting votes cast on Thursday in a snap general election that will decide if the Indian Ocean island nation ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country’s new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party’s power and follow through ...

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