The Sri Lankan people wanted change. They had grown tired of traditional political parties that had wooed them for votes but ...

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

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

Rather, I was on the little Asian island of Sri Lanka.This teardrop-shaped isle off India’s southern tip is largely known for ...

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

The left-leaning coalition of newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won 159 of the legislature's 225 seats ...

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

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory ...

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

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