Sri Lanka on Thursday voted to elect a new parliament, a first major test for the ruling National People's Power (NPP) party ...

Sri Lanka's president's coalition, the National People's Power (NPP) posted an early lead in a parliamentary election, local ...

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 ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap general election to decide if the Indian Ocean island nation will give its new leftist president greater legislative power to help the poor as it ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Protests by local Muslim groups against Israel’s war against ... But Arugam Bay, a hotspot for surfing around 400 kilometers ...

Having failed to secure 50 per cent of the vote at the September 21 presidential election, Mr. Dissanayake is pleading for a stronger parliament with well over a simple majority of 113 seats to ...

People in Sri Lanka are voting in snap parliamentary elections, barely seven weeks after choosing a new president. More than ...

Chanu Nimesha, the member of the LGBTQ+ community, is a candidate among 8,000 hoping for a seat in parliament.

Almost civil-war-like conditions and months of public protests led to the fleeing of the then president ... number of Members of Parliament – 19 with the capital district of Colombo from the same ...

Sri Lanka’s youth and middle-class, who played an instrumental role in anti-government protests in recent years ... uncertainties over election promises and post-election reality. (Colombo/November 14 ...

Colombo, Nov 13 (PTI) Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... Almost civil-war-like conditions and months of public protests led to the fleeing of the then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.