Makes history in Tamil-majority Jaffna.

Dissanayake's NPP won nearly 62 percent of the vote in Thursday's election. This showed a clear hike from the 42 percent he ...

Since its inception on 4 February 1948, Sri Lanka’s Independence Day has served as a poignant emblem of ‘celebration by ...

The left-leaning coalition of newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won 159 of the legislature's 225 ...

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory ...

The National People’s Power won a parliamentary election that will allow the country’s new president to unroll his reform ...

Despite these challenges, the NPP’s victory, with its overwhelming 62% support, signals a shift in Sri Lanka’s political ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition won a historic parliamentary supermajority in the country’s ...