Dissanayake leads the Marxist-leaning National People’s Power coalition and he appointed a colleague, Harini Amarasuriya, as ...

In the run-up to the Presidential election of 2024, the then emerging aspirant for executive office Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

Singapore’s President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong have written to Sri Lankan President Anura ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Senior Deputy Inspector General Priyantha Weerasuriya as the acting police chief, replacing Deshabandu Tennakoon, who was suspended by the ...

JAFFNA/COLOMBO – Sri Lankans voted for an end to economic hardship in the country’s presidential election on Sept 21, and new ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Senior DIG Priyantha Weerasuriya as the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The ...

Sri Lankans elected left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their 10th president last Saturday. The election of 55 year old Dissanayake marked the end of the dynastic political culture that ...

The new president is an ordinary citizen in social terms with no pretensions to public display of power, taste, wealth or ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the Aragalaya movement, won the Sri Lankan presidential election, with his National ...

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to make way for a snap general election. He ...

SINGAPORE - President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong both sent letters to congratulate newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...