Observers expect a multi-cornered contest in the general election, which may ultimately dent the chances of President Anura ...

A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...

Sri Lanka's general election sees a shift in political landscape as voters choose representatives amid economic crisis ...

Dissanayake leads a coalition known as the National People’s Power, or NPP-an alliance in which his party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, or the People’s Liberation Front, is often characterized by its ...

It is politically significant as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) comes full circle, poised to set up the next government nearly 60 years after the party was birthed. Founded in 1965 by Rohana ...

Over 17.1 million voters in Sri Lanka are eligible to cast their votes to elect a 225-member parliament in the November 14 polls amid the sovereign defaulted nation’s partially completed debt ...

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning ...

This enabled Anura to spearhead a commendable political renaissance of the JVP led NPP. As is well known , Anura Kumara Dissanayake finished first in the presidential election held on 24 September ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led ruling National People’s Power (NPP) is ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s 17.1 million voters head to the polls again on Thursday to vote in snap parliamentary elections, barely ...

Dissanayake’s victory in the September presidential election marked a historic achievement for the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), the founding party of the NPP, as it became the first electoral win ...

"The result of the election is a foregone conclusion." The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former president ...