The NPP won 107 seats, receiving almost 62 per cent or 6.8 million votes in Thursday’s election, putting them past the ...

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

The warning shriek which rang out from a group of monkeys atop a tree caused our khaki-clad guide, Avanki, to sit bolt ...

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

The strong mandate for Dissanayake’s coalition comes with great expectations of a speedy recovery ...

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

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election ... 21 in a victory that marked a rejection of the ...

From spicy kothu and Jaffna-inspired crab curry to breakfast hoppers and choon paan bread, these’s no shortage of foodie ...

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 ...

The Rajapaksa family was duly credited with uniting the country after winning a relentless war with the LTTE. In May 2009 the ...