The Aragalaya sweeps a bearded, 55-year-old son of a labourer into power.

As is well known Sirimavo and Chandrika were the wife and daughter of formr Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) respectively. Prime Minister Bandaranaike was killed in 1959.

Not one of the 38 contenders in Sri Lanka’s presidential election this month is ... cannot be the only answer, said Harini Amarasuriya, a woman parliamentarian who called for a wider effort to bring ...

Her academic background could bring a depth of analysis to policymaking, while her activist roots keep her connected to ...

The Hindu College in Delhi has expressed its immense pride in its alumna, Harini Amarasuriya, becoming the 16th Prime ...

Hindu College, Delhi, celebrates alumna Harini Amarasuriya’s appointment as the 16th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. The college ...

Dissanayake wants to establish a “stable” government with a clear parliamentary majority in order to carry out the harsh ...

Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the ...

Ms Amarasuriya, 54, is the first woman in more than two decades and the only third woman in the history of independent Sri ...

Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the ...

New Delhi - Catapulted to power on an anti-corruption platform, Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president, Anura Kumara ...

For Dilshan Jayasanka, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s first Marxist-leaning president is the ...