Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s 10th president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading the country into economic crisis.

Dissanayake pledged to change the island's "corrupt" political culture. The nation's battered economy took centre stage ...

Two years after massive popular protests in Sri Lanka ousted former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the ... leader of a Marxist-led alliance, Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Wickremesinghe is wooing ...

Even his father, Mahinda joined him on stage. Namal Rajapaksa denied his family ... For people looking for change, many are looking to Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The candidate of the leftist ...

Parliament elected Wickremesinghe to serve out the rest of the five-year term of Rajapaksa ... and free-market economic policies. ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE, 55 Despite holding just three seats ...

Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and Namal Rajapaksa of the Sri Lanka People’s Party (SLPP). The voting will begin at ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dissanayake, 55 ... He is the eldest son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and nephew of the ousted president, Gotabaya. The clan is widely credited with ending the ...

NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake launched the Party’s election manifesto today with a pledge to abolish the executive presidency, enact a new constitution and punish the corrupt. Here are ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has taken a commanding lead in Sri Lanka’s presidential election. The election on Saturday (21) is the... Rachin Ravindra led New Zealand’s charge as they scored 194 runs in ...

Mr. Dissanayake was the outsider. He presented himself as the agent of change’, the original promise of ‘Janatha Aragalaya (People’s struggle), the mass movement that brought down the ...