Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose pro-working class and anti-political elite campaigning made him popular ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, was declared the winner of the Sri Lankan ...

Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha, congratulated president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his recent ...

Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of ranked ballot ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, candidate of National People Power, emerged as the winner in the presidential election in Sri Lanka held on Saturday, the ...

That conflict, between the Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan state, erupted in 1983. The Tigers eventually had vast areas ...

The 55-year-old Dissanayake heads the National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, which includes his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ...

Dissanayake’s rise reflects widespread voter frustration with established politicians in the wake of Sri Lanka’s 2022 ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has been elected as Sri Lanka's next President after the first elections since the country's ...

Officials are yet to release the final voting percentage. By 2 pm, more than 60 per cent of the 17 million eligible people ...

This newspaper is being printed on Friday night according to our normal schedule and subscribers would have received it while the voting is in progress. Even if it was printed a day later on Saturday ...

Polling concluded in Sri Lanka on Saturday with no violence or security breaches reported anywhere from all 22 electoral districts in the crucial presidential elections, the island nation’s first ...