The growing support for Dissanayake, a center-left politician who ran on transparency and the working class, is a reflection ...

Residents in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, are hoping for change following the country's election of its first leftist ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political old guard that has been widely blamed for the unprecedented economic crisis ...

The family of murdered Sri Lanka journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge appealed on Tuesday to the island's new president to ...

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday vowing to restore public faith in politics but said he had ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s tenth president on Monday after an election that saw ...

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn into office Monday vowing to restore public faith in politics after anger over ...

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect will be sworn into office Monday after simmering public anger over the island nation's ...

As elections in Sri Lanka concluded, left-leaning Dissanayake as was elected as the new President. Taking to the ‘X’, PM Modi congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayaka for pulling off landslide victory ...

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, candidate of National People Power, emerged as the winner in the presidential election in Sri Lanka held on Saturday, the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna party, has been declared the winner ...