President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's promise to hold corrupt officials accountable has fueled his public support.

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

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.

Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, ...

Sri Lanka's president's coalition, the National People's Power (NPP) posted an early lead in a parliamentary election, local ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on Sept. 21 in a victory that marked a rejection of the ...

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which has sole authority to print currency in the island nation, told AFP it had not released banknotes featuring the image of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri ... Born on Nov. 24, 1968 into an ordinary family in a paddy-growing central ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake ... 1968 into an ordinary family in a paddy-growing central part of Sri Lanka, Dissanayake was politically active from his school ...