She becomes Sri Lanka's third woman Prime Minister after Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, according to a NewsWire report. The new Sri Lankan PM is the first ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake calls a general election, dissolving the parliament where his party only holds three seats.

A government notification said that parliament was dissolved effective from midnight, with elections set for November 14.

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has sworn in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved Parliament and called for parliamentary elections in less than three weeks in an effort to consolidate his mandate following his weeken ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist president dissolved parliament on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate ...

Harini Amarasuriya, Sri Lanka's new prime minister, has a special connection with India as she spent her formative college ...

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has sworn in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the ...

Harini Amarasuriya, an alumna of Delhi University's Hindu College, became Sri Lanka's new prime minister. The 54-year-old academic-turned-politician is the first woman in the role since 2000. Her ...

Marxist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake vowed to renegotiate an IMF rescue plan implemented after millions of people sank ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...