Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary ...

SJB secretary claims party confident of massive victory, says government popularity on the wane The month-long campaign by political parties and groups ends at midnight tomorrow for Thursday’s ...

The Executive Director of PAFFREL said the Anura Kumara Dissanayake administration had been discussing ... There has been an ...

Five candidates, 120 supporters arrested for election law violations By Rathindra Kuruwita Police had so far arrested five ...

On the campaign trail, President AKD followed-up his memorable line “I hear talk in certain places about an Opposition. An ...

Colombo, October 29: February 2, 2014 was a red letter day in the life of Anura Kumara Dissanayake. It was on this day that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna's 17th national convention was held.

The names of JVP stalwarts such as K.D. Lalkantha, Tilvin Silva, Vijitha Herath, Sunil Handunneththi, Bimal Ratnayake and Anura Kumara Dissanayake were bandied about as potential successors.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, has fervently urged his party’s candidates for the country’s Nov. 14 national parliamentary election to work for a “strong ...

This does not mean that the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (often referred to by his initials, AKD) of the National People’s Power (NPP) reflected a political consensus. At first look ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake. While Dissanayake did not secure a simple majority during the first round of counting for the presidential race, he led with 42.3 per cent in the second round.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right) during a meeting with India's external ... Taiwan is a sovereign and democratic nation, but it never officially declared independence. A poster from Taiwan’s ...

Thousands of posters were displayed. Millions of leaflets were distributed ... It would be unfair to condemn the JVP on the basis of its past alone. Currently Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the darling ...