Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

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

but you can't expect immediately," the 52-year-old told Agence France-Presse (AFP ... The outgoing parliament was dominated ...

The Airbus Industrie in France had paid Kapila Chandrasena ... This was later reversed by Mahinda Rajapaksa who was elected President thereafter. The Supreme Court also imposed a fine on her personal ...

Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident of a victory as polls closed in Thursday’s snap legislative ...

Sri Lankans were voting in snap parliamentary elections Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party expected to secure a mandate to drive through economic reforms.

Commenting on his father’s political future, the ex-parliamentarian said that he believed Mahinda Rajapaksa shouldn’t have contested the 2015 presidential election. Namal Rajapaksa added that his ...

The security personnel assigned to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been reduced to 60, official sources said. This decision was made by a committee responsible for the deployment of VIP ...

Colombo ,November 1 (Daily Mirror) -The security personnel assigned to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been reduced to 60, official sources said. This decision was made by a committee ...

Sri Lanka's Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that politicians never retire and that he has decided not to contest the 2024 Parliamentary Elections. Rajapaksa clarified stating that not ...

Sri Lanka's political campaigning drew to a close Monday ahead of parliamentary polls that have turned into a referendum on ambitious plans to tackle corruption in the bankrupt nation.