On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National

Ms Amarasuriya, 54, is the first woman in more than two decades and the only third woman in the history of independent Sri Lanka to take charge as the prime minister. She is a sociology lecturer and known for her activism on gender and minority rights.

Days after getting a new President, Sri Lanka on Tuesday got Harini Amarasuriya as its new Prime Minister who became the first woman leader to hold the post since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 2000

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has sworn in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the country’s first woman to head the government in 24 years

Sri Lanka's new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, named Harini Amarasuriya as the new prime minister of the Indian Ocean island nation on Tuesday. Dissanayake was elected president in the election held on Saturday.

Sri Lanka's new president has chosen his prime minister - selecting a woman for the third time in the country's history. Anura Kumara Dissanayake named former university lecturer-turned-MP Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Tuesday - also giving her ministerial responsibility for justice,

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

Harini Amarasuriya, Sri Lanka's new prime minister, has a special connection with India as she spent her formative college years at Delhi University. The 54-year-old academic-turned-politician, who took office as the 16th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Tuesday,

Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as Sri Lanka's Prime Minister on Tuesday after the party led by Ranil Wickremesinghe fell short in the presidential election. Amarasuriya, a member of the National People’s Power Alliance (NPP),

Harini Amarasuriya has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's 16th Prime Minister, becoming the country's first female prime minister since 1994 and taking on multiple key portfolios.