India’s Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar (right) engages in talks with Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, chief of the Janatha Vikmukthi Peramuna-led National People’s Power coalition, in New Delhi, ...

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented ...

Sri Lanka's main Marxist leader and a key presidential hopeful in elections next month pledged on Monday to selectively welcome foreign investors, especially in green energy, if he wins. Anura Kumara ...

Sri Lanka's president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka was previously a fringe politician, whose party led two failed uprisings - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA Sri ...

How Sri Lanka grapples with questions thrown up by the mass grave at Chemmani could lead to reconciliation – or more recrimination and strife. The National People’s Power won not only a two-thirds ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation Front, was declared the winner of the weekend's poll with nearly 1.3 million more votes than his nearest rival.

Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) took his oath at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after trouncing his nearest rivals in Saturday ...

National People's Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA National People's Power (NPP) presidential candidate ...