Mr Dissanayake won about 53 per cent of a million votes counted so far in the election. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Dissanayake, 55, leads the National People's Power, a coalition of leftist political parties and groups backed by protesters ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist JVP’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP), has consolidated his lead to be declared the winner in just concluded Sri Lanka's crucial ...

COLOMBO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka has extended the curfew imposed in the country until noon on Sunday, Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles said. A curfew was imposed in Sri Lanka with effect ...

A previously fringe Marxist politician was on course Sunday to become Sri Lanka's next leader after a presidential vote ...

The much maligned executive presidency was established by the United National Party (UNP) Govt of Junius Richard Jayawardene in 1978. JR’s nephew and incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe was ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, grabbed a commanding early lead on Sunday in ...

National People's Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake seems set to become Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president on ...

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...

Grove Isle’s first new residential development in decades is one step closer to completion. Renowned real estate developer Ugo Colombo’s CMC Group has topped off construction of Vita at Grove Isle, a ...

Sri Lanka imposed a night curfew across the country Saturday despite a peaceful presidential election that is effectively a ...

Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis ...