Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka's presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...

Marxist political outsider takes oath as new Sri Lanka president as voters reject establishment parties - Dissanayake’s win ...

The election came as the country seeks to recover from a severe economic crisis that led to shortages of essentials such as ...

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

Soon after being elected president, Dissanayake said Sri Lanka didn’t have any geopolitical concerns, and he was committed to ...

Left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's 10th president on Sept. 22, marking the end of the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and ...

The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and ...

Were the JVP/NPP to come to power, it would rapidly come into open and violent conflict with the working class, using ...

The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has vowed to cancel Adani Group’s wind power project in Sri Lanka if it wins the upcoming presidential election. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Namal Rajapaksa, the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, has emphasized the need for a digital transformation of government systems to eliminate the persistent ...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Namal Rajapaksa, the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, has stressed the importance of village development as a cornerstone for building the country's economy.