Dissanayake's NPP won nearly 62 percent of the vote in Thursday's election. This showed a clear hike from the 42 percent he ...

To date, no single entity, whether global or otherwise, has extended funds and facilities to Sri Lanka the way India has done ...

The working class will rapidly come into conflict with the JVP/NPP government, which while posturing as anti-establishment, ...

After parliamentary elections, Sri Lanka’s new president now has a commanding majority to pass his reform agenda.

Sri Lanka’s economic upheaval led to a political crisis that forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign in 2022.

The National People's Power alliance of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept to power after a snap parliamentary election in which voters handed the left-leaning alliance a landslide ...

Provided by Xinhua Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (L, front) leaves a polling station after casting his vote ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose coalition took at least 159 seats in the 225-member assembly, said thanks ‘to all who voted ...

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

In the first major political test for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's NPP, Sri Lanka on Thursday headed to elect a new ...

President Dissanayake’s party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, including among Tamils and Muslims.