Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption.

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena resigns from his post as part of a power transition in the country following the presidential election ...

55-year-old Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist politician, was elected as president on Sep. 22, 2024, beating opposition ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect on Sunday (Sep 22) invited his compatriots to help him "rewrite" history in the ...

The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and ...

Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People's Power (NPP), ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party, has been sworn in as the ninth president of ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth executive president in a simple ceremony.

NPP Presidential Candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake took oath as the 9th Executive President of Sri Lanka on Monday (23). Sri Lanka's Election Commission announced Dissanayake (55) as the winner of ...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has resigned, he said on Monday, a day after Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara ...

Dissanayake’s victory represents a significant political shift in Sri Lanka which is still grappling with an economic fallout ...