The Freedom Party got nearly 30 percent of the national vote, but mainstream parties have vowed to join in a coalition ...

On Monday, Sri Lankan political expert Bernard Goonetilleke will join Explained.Live to answer these questions and discuss ...

The addition of Gideon Saar to Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition strengthens the prime minister’s political position.

You could blame the Buddhist extremists of the majority Sinhalese population who led the first pogroms against the Tamil minority in 1958, or the Marxist insurrection that broke out in 1971 (30,000 ...

Sri Lankans have elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president, putting their faith in his commitment to fight corruption and stabilize the economy. Dissanayake's victory comes after ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament and called for a parliamentary election in an ...

Port City Colombo has announced that the two gazetted regulations, Offshore Banking and Offshore Banking -- Prudent Management and Confidence, were officially passed by the Parliament of Sri Lanka ...

As is well known Sirimavo and Chandrika were the wife and daughter of formr Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) respectively. Prime Minister Bandaranaike was killed in 1959.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says he will do his utmost to uncover the truth on the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks ...

The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and ...