Ranil Wickremesinghe, the outgoing president who lost to Dissanayake in last month’s presidential election, is not contesting a parliamentary election for the first time since 1977. The Rajapaksa ...

is expected to be NPP’s main challenger alongside the New Democratic Front — a breakaway group from the party of the Raja­paksa family and backed by former president Ranil Wickremesinghe. Voters who ...

Maligakanda Magistrate Lochani Abeywickrama has ordered the CID to question and record statements from former President Ranil Wickremesinghe and former Cabinet members over the procurement of ...

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa (SP), independent candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) and Sri Lanka ...

THE country’s new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.

Maligakanda Chief Magistrate Lochani Abeywickrama has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to obtain statements from 18 former cabinet ministers, including former President Ranil ...

The snap parliamentary elections were called by President Dissanayake after he won polls in September on a promise to combat ...

Dissanayake, during his final campaign rally, indicated significant budget cuts, particularly the unpopular pay-as-you-earn ...

Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, seeks to expand his parliamentary seats with backing from ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...

Furkan said he expected Dissanayake’s party to comfortably win Thursday’s parliamentary elections and then pursue reforms, ...

Strong support that Dissanayake secured in the presidential election will likely stay with his party in Thursday’s election, ...