Dissanayake leads the Marxist-leaning National People’s Power coalition and he appointed a colleague, Harini Amarasuriya, as ...

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong have written to Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has brought back an online visa application platform to encourage to attract more tourists after its top court suspended a controversial multimillion-dollar deal that outsourced ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Senior Deputy Inspector General Priyantha Weerasuriya as the acting police chief, replacing Deshabandu Tennakoon, who was suspended by the ...

JAFFNA/COLOMBO – Sri Lankans voted for an end to economic hardship in the country’s presidential election on Sept 21, and new ...

Sri Lanka restores old visa system after Supreme Court order, reversing controversial new portal managed by Indian company.

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Senior DIG Priyantha Weerasuriya as the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The ...

Sri Lankans elected left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their 10th president last Saturday. The election of 55 year old Dissanayake marked the end of the dynastic political culture that ...

Sri Lanka has restored an online visa application platform to encourage tourism. Under the outsourcing deal, any foreigner entering Sri Lanka was required to pay a $25 visa processing fee -- even ...

The new president is an ordinary citizen in social terms with no pretensions to public display of power, taste, wealth or ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the Aragalaya movement, won the Sri Lankan presidential election, with his National ...