Traditionally, Tamils have voted for Tamil parties which are active in northern Sri Lanka, but Paramasamy Thanabalasingam, a ...

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is a prominent candidate in Sri Lanka's presidential election, known for his leftist policies and ...

Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe did not scrap his re-election campaign days before the bankrupt nation voted in ...

Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the ...

Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a ...

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

Over the past two years, Daham Piyasena has lived through momentous times: the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka’s history, ...

Whoever wins this week’s election must maintain a degree of policy stability if growth and prosperity are to return.

On Sept. 21, 17 million Sri Lankans will cast their vote to select the country’s next president. This is the first popular ...

COLOMBO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Sri Lankans will vote for a new president in a tightly contested election on Saturday, with the ...

Two years ago, food cart worker Fathima Shiyama had to wait in line, sometimes for days, to get cooking gas, fuel and other ...