Wickremensignhe’s main challengers — opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and parliamentarian Anura Dissanayake, a surprise top ...

Millions of Sri Lankans cast their votes on Saturday to select a new president who will face the task of cementing the South ...

Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country. As the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist policies to help the poor and ...

Sri Lankans who usually vote along religious and ethnic lines will be keeping the state of the economy in mind when they vote ...

Election officials carry ballot boxes a day before the presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 20, 2024. Sri Lanka ...

Sri Lanka is all set to hold Presidential elections on Saturday. The island nation has seen a lot of turmoil in the last few ...

“The union leaders come every time promising us houses and land and I would like to have them," she said. "But they never happen as promised.” Francis reported from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election next week COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- When an uprising ousted Sri Lanka's ...

Taxes are so high, we can’t manage it,” the 35-year-old told the BBC at a busy market in Colombo. Sri Lanka was able to stave off bankruptcy in 2022 thanks to loans from the International ...

But since Sri Lanka introduced the universal franchise ... party in her closely-knit, middle-class Colombo neighbourhood, where she knows most of the 1,250-odd families by their first names.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition leader said Thursday that if he wins the country's presidential race, he will renegotiate the International Monetary Fund economic reforms ...