Wickremensignhe’s main challengers — opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and parliamentarian Anura Dissanayake, a surprise top ...

Exuberant young men splashing around in a pool with one theatrically soaping himself as a crowd cheered. Sri Lankans dancing ...

Its all-powerful Rajapaksa family were hounded out of power. President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa fled the country while PM Mahinda ...

Mr. Wickremesinghe, 75, a six-time former prime minister, is a political survivor. His elevation to the presidency in 2022, ...

Sri Lankan politics was largely dominated by one family since 2005. However, this seems to have changed after the economic and national crisis of 2022 and in the current presidential election, there ...

COLOMBO: In the first election to be held after the unprecedented economic collapse in 2022 and the people’s protest movement, Aragalaya, Sri Lankans will on Sa ...

Sri Lankans are voting for a new president in the first election since mass protests sparked by the country's worst-ever ...

Voters in Sri Lanka have to rank up to 3 candidates in order of preference. Candidate with 50% votes is declared winner; if ...

Polls show no clear winner unless there is a last minute surge for a candidate ahead of election day. Stability is paramount ...

Namal Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is running for president in Sri Lanka. Despite his efforts to ...

When an uprising ousted Sri Lanka’s president, many saw it as the end of his powerful family’s hold on the island nation ...