ECONOMYNEXT —Six consecutive quarters of negative economic growth in Sri Lanka has led to lower wage rates and discouraged workforce... ECONOMYNEXT –Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called ...

Sri Lanka's cricket board on Monday named Sanath Jayasuriya as the national team's head coach until the end of the Twenty20 World Cup in 2026. Sri Lanka are building a robust all-round Twenty20 ...

“I will now deliver Sri Lanka a developed economy, developed social system and developed political system." But many people are unhappy as higher prices force them to cut back on basics such as ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders and overthrow the government in an armed insurrection. On Sunday ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has named Harini Amarasuriya, a member of his National People’s Power (NPP) coalition ...

By Mujib Mashal and Pamodi Waravita Reporting from Colombo and Galle, Sri Lanka Two of the front-runners in Sri Lanka’s presidential election were the sons of former presidents. A third ...

Mr Dissanayake’s victory represents a significant political shift in Sri Lanka. Born in 1968 in Galewela in central Sri Lanka, Mr Dissanayake’s early years were shaped by the country’s ...

We are a vote of hope," he tells the crowd. The presidential election is a pivotal moment in Sri Lanka's political and economic history, and is the first electoral process taking place after the ...

An overnight curfew has been imposed across Sri Lanka after voting ended in the presidential election as the island nation seeks to recover from an unprecedented economic crisis that triggered ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to data released by the Election Commission Sunday, as voters rejected the old ...

Sri Lanka’s election, said Nilanthi Samaranayake of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the East-West Center, has brought to the fore “tangible electoral consequences” of global banks’ impact ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved Parliament late Tuesday and called for a parliamentary election in less than two months in an effort to ...