The economic collapse led to persistent antigovernment protests, with demonstrators taking over key buildings and forcing then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign. Ranil ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che Guevara among his heroes and will now helm a country limping back ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition, has been elected president following ...

As elections in Sri Lanka concluded, left-leaning Dissanayake as was elected as the new President. Taking to the ‘X’, PM Modi congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayaka for pulling off landslide victory ...

Sri Lanka's president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka was previously a fringe politician, whose party led two failed uprisings ...

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect will be sworn into office Monday after simmering public anger over the island nation's ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday he was looking forward "to working closely" with Sri Lankan president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the leftist winner of the island nation's ...

Sri Lanka's next president following vote heavily influenced by dissatisfaction with country's handling of an unprecedented ...

Sri Lanka's election commission formally announced on Sunday Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka the winner of the presidential election, defeating incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect on Sunday invited his compatriots to help him "rewrite" history in the cash-strapped ...