COLOMBO: Sri Lanka imposed a night curfew across the country Saturday despite a peaceful presidential election ...

About 76 per cent of the 17.1 million person electorate turned out for the Sept 21 vote. Read more at straitstimes.com.

For the first time ever, it could produce a winner who fails to gain a majority of votes. Either a victory or a narrow defeat of the leftist NPP’s candidate could stoke tensions. Should either the NPP ...

Now, caught up in a karmic battle to correct the ‘injustice’ done to them by the ‘men in Colombo who do not know that they exist, they say, ‘we will let them know that we exist, that we have power ...

The Jaffna High Court on Friday dismissed a defamatory case filed by Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda against the local Tamil daily Uthayan for republishing a WikiLeaks article on its platform.

Sri Lankans on Saturday voted to elect a new president in the first elections since the economic meltdown in 2022 ...

By the time this paper goes to print the voting at the Presidential Election of 2024 would have been completed and the country’s citizens would have given expression to their choice of the Head of ...

The Gampaha District, with more than 1.8 million voters, has the highest number of registered voters. Here too, voters came in early to exercise their civic rights, indicating their enthusiasm. Voting ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka's main Marxist politician took a comfortable lead Sunday in a keenly fought presidential election ...

Ariyanethiran Pakkiyaselvam has taken the lead in the Nallur electorate, receiving 10,097 votes. President Ranil ...