Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president has sworn in a 22-member Cabinet after his party secured a two-thirds parliamentary ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition has secured a decisive victory in Sri Lanka’s snap general election, giving its new leftist president greater legislative powers to pursue policies to ...

While analysts welcome the increase, they caution that more women in politics alone won’t challenge patriarchal norms and ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary ...

National People’s Power (NPP) MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya has officially assumed duties in the office as the Prime Minister of ...

“As human beings, what is important to us is humanity, not whether we are man or woman ... September's presidential election.

Sri Lanka votes in a snap general election on Thursday, called by new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to secure a majority ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday appointed a 21-member Cabinet in the new NPP government, keeping with ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lankans were voting in a parliamentary election on Thursday that is key for the country's new president to ...

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president swore in a 22-member Cabinet ... presidential election and that made her the first woman to head the government in 24 years.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP ... first appointed in September after Dissanayake won the presidential election and that made her the first woman to head the government in 24 years.