Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's leading presidential candidate and Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka's party has said that it will ...

A grand effort led by the Wolfensohn-run World Bank that involved debt cancellation—and advocacy by rock-star Bono—did little ...

The election commission of Sri Lanka on Sunday ordered the counting of the second preference vote after no candidate secured ...

Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...

This is the first in Sri Lanka’s history that a presidential election goes into a second round of vote counting.

Though Anura Kumara Dissanayake's lead has decreased since early morning, he's still expected to come out on top. Everyone ...

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SUMMIT: As if the world wasn’t already drowning in high-level summitry, there’s another one to add to the mix. The two-day “Summit of the Future,” the latest attempt to try to ...

Sri Lanka is set to get its new president after a historic turn of events which led to a second round of counting of votes as ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, leader of the People's Liberation Front, is poised to become Sri Lanka's next president after a ...