Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is set to become the new President of Sri Lanka as he amassed ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka held presidential elections on Saturday, serving as a de facto referendum on the contentious ...

Over 70 per cent turnout was recorded in districts like Hambantota, Kandy, Vavuniya, Polonnaruwa, Mannar, Trincomalee, ...

Polls show no clear winner unless there is a last minute surge for a candidate ahead of election day in Sri Lanka. Stability ...

This newspaper is being printed on Friday night according to our normal schedule and subscribers would have received it while the voting is in progress. Even if it was printed a day later on Saturday ...

Sri Lanka’s creditors (China being the largest) have to hope that the conservative Premadasa (a London School of Economics ...

Women make up more than half of the voters in Sri Lanka, but in Saturday’s presidential election, not even one will be on the ...

The crisis, which led to widespread food and fuel shortages, prompted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022. The economic policy of Rajapaksa, followed by the onset of ...

ECONOMYNEXT –Early results of Sri Lanka’s ninth presidential poll held on Saturday showed Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ...

Over 17 million voters are set to decide the country's president. The vote comes after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt 2022, triggering the worst economic crisis in decades.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Sri Lanka's National People's Power, backed by the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, has taken ...