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 ...

A frontrunner in the September 21 presidential vote, Dissanayake’s party, the JVP, twice fought violent battles to overthrow the very Sri Lankan state that he now wants to run. Anura Kumara ...

The island nation's new president Anura Dissanayake heralded a "new era of renaissance" as he was sworn in on Monday. Here is ...

JVP/NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has made a revelation. He has said, at a political rally in Thambuttegama, that the JVP had posters printed for Mahinda Rajapaksa’s 2005 presidential election ...

Fixing Sri Lanka’s battered economy and wiping out racism will be top priority for a National People’s Power (NPP) government, Anura Kumara ... Rajapaksa won with a clear majority. Mr ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) is the only party capable of guaranteeing the security of all communities, as it is the only party that does not tolerate extremism in any form, said NPP presidential ...

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 ...

You voted for Maithripala Sirisena in 2015 while the Sourthen people voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa ... he told a public rally in Jaffna. "Anura Kumara Dissanayake should tender an apology to ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of National ... who were part of public protests that ousted then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022. Protesters blamed Rajapaksa for an economic collapse ...