Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, grabs a commanding early lead on Sunday in his bid to become ...

Dissanayake won about 53 per cent of the million votes counted so far in the election, Sri Lanka’s Election Commission data ...

For the first time ever, it could produce a winner who fails to gain a majority of votes. Either a victory or a narrow defeat of the leftist NPP’s candidate could stoke tensions. Should either the NPP ...

The fight for the president’s post in Sri Lanka is largely a three-way contest between Ranil Wickremesinghe, Anura Kumara ...

Thirty-eight candidates are running for president of the Asian nation of Sri Lanka, which is still recovering from a 2022 economic collapse. Its incumbent president faces a tight race.

Sri Lankans have begun voting in their first election since the collapse of the economy triggered mass protests that prompted ...

Over 17 million voters are set to decide the country's president. The vote comes after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign ...

Sri Lankans headed to the polls in their first election since the country's severe economic collapse, which led to mass ...

While the economy has stabilised many people are suffering as a result of austerity measures backed by the IMF. Sri Lankans ...

All of the capitalist candidates is today’s election are committed to a continuing the International Monetary Fund’s savage ...

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

Leftist frontrunner promises crackdown on ‘corrupt’ politicians and calls for revisiting deals with IMF and bondholders ...