Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation ...

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising "clean" politics as the country ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn-in as Sri Lanka president in a ceremony held at the Presidential ...

The country is emerging from a years-long economic collapse blamed partly on struggling high-debt Chinese mega-projects ...

Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has taken office with a pledge to usher in "clean" politics, as the ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president on Monday after an election ...

Popularly known as AKD, 56-year-old Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president on Monday, 23 September by Chief ...

Dissanayake was first elected to Parliament in 2000 and briefly held the portfolio of agriculture and irrigation minister ...

Leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party’s broader front National People’s Power, Dissanayake, defeats his closest rival ...

Video shows the moment Sri Lanka’s new president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, was sworn in after a landslide ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday vowed to preserve democracy and do everything to clean public life. The remarks by Dissanayake, 56, came as he was sworn in as Sri ...