As many as 196 members are to be elected from the 22 districts based on the proportional representation system while 29 would ...

"The result of the election is a foregone conclusion." The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former president ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday voted to elect a new parliament, a first major test for the ruling National People's Power (NPP) party ...

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

COLOMBO - Sri ... Rajapaksa was ousted. On Nov 14, the 55-year-old said he expected “a strong majority” in parliament to ...

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

The outgoing parliament was dominated by Mahinda Rajapaksa's party, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), or People's Front, ...

Rev. Saundranayagam, two decades of your missions to Wanni, has been in vain. The International Community have got nothing to do with the internal investigation on the disappearance of Rev. Fr. Jim ...

Sri Lanka is set to hold on Thursday its snap parliamentary ... is not contesting the parliamentary election for the first time since 1977. The Rajapaksa brothers - Mahinda, Gotabaya, Chamal and Basil ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...