Sri Lanka began voting in a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his pro-poor policies as it ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (Nov 10) vowed to return land currently controlled by state agencies to Tamils in the country’s war-affected north and east.

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

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The names of JVP stalwarts such as K.D. Lalkantha, Tilvin Silva, Vijitha Herath, Sunil Handunneththi, Bimal Ratnayake and Anura Kumara Dissanayake were bandied about as potential successors.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake known popularly as Anura and AKD became the new JVP leader What was remarkable about the leadership change was the smooth , non-confrontational manner in which it was done ...

Amidst the upcoming General Elections, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will not attend the 2024 Commonwealth ... of the Foreign Affairs Ministry and Sri Lanka High Commission in London will ...

In a historic election, Sri Lankans have chosen Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist-Leninist politician, to lead their crisis-hit country. While it is not very usual for political paradigm shifts ...

Jayasekera told the meeting that the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who leads the JVP/NPP, had called the elections to consolidate its power through a parliamentary majority.

This does not mean that the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (often referred to by his initials, AKD) of the National People’s Power (NPP) reflected a political consensus. At first look ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake. While Dissanayake did not secure a simple majority during the first round of counting for the presidential race, he led with 42.3 per cent in the second round.