Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday extended his congratulations to Anura Kumara Dissanayake for his victory in the Sri Lankan Presidential elections. He expressed India's eagerness to ...

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

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), won 42.3 per cent of the vote in the Sep 21 ...

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

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

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was inaugurated as Sri Lanka's ninth president on Monday. The new leader, from the National People's ...

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

Dissanayake leads the left-leaning coalition National People’s Power, an umbrella of civil society groups, professionals, ...

The 55-year-old pro-working class leader has said he will renegotiate the IMF deal to make austerity measures more bearable ...