President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's promise to hold corrupt officials accountable has fueled his public support.

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 have voted in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

A record 690 political parties and independent groups are in the fray across 22 electoral districts; results set for Friday ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap general election to decide if the Indian Ocean island nation will give its new ...

As Sri Lankans headed to the polls on Thursday to make a crucial decision about cementing the 'new era of politics' ushered ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to ...

She is also an amateur actress, composes music, and has written a book, which is set to be released in two months. Born in Galle, Nimesha lost her father to political violence at age 14, prompting her ...

Some 8,885 candidates of 49 political parties and 284 independent groups are ... which is austerity, but reach out for issues that affect Sri Lanka-the scourge of corruption and fiscal mismanagement.

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

The biggest challenge for the NPP — which was founded in 2019 and is a relative newcomer on Sri Lanka’s political scene — is that many of its candidates are new faces in politics running against ...

"I think we are seeing the first signs of a positive political change in Sri Lanka after the president was elected and ...