In a historic election, Sri Lankans have chosen Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... Coming from a non-political family, 19-year-old Dissanayake actively participated in the 1987-89 armed insurrection ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

The left in Sri Lanka has a history of antipathy towards the “Bretton Woods Twins”(World Bank and IMF) The JVP led NPP began ...

This does not mean that the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (often referred to ... Party run by the Wijewardene-Wickremesinghe family and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party run by the Bandaranaike ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, has fervently urged his party’s candidates for the country’s Nov. 14 national parliamentary election to work for a “strong ...

(Photo: Xinhua) People wade through floodwater in a street in Gampaha, Sri Lanka, on Oct. 12, 2024. Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed officials to provide immediate ...

The wife of a Sri Lankan cartoonist and political analyst who was forcibly disappeared over a decade ago has been joined by ...

The 43-year-old woman from Guangzhou, capital city of southern China’s Guangdong province, set off alone for Sri Lanka’s ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power ... that he will not contest the general election. The Rajapaksa family has similarly opted out. This leaves Sajith Premadasa ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power ... a younger member of the previously powerful Rajapaksa family that ...