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AFP/APP Colombo: New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party is poised for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, according to early results released Friday. With over half the ballots from Thursday’s…

AFP/APP Colombo: Sri Lanka's new government has approved a contentious $14.7 billion foreign commercial debt restructuring plan initially agreed upon by the previous administration, according to a statement from the finance ministry on…

AFP/APP Colombo: Sri Lanka's newly elected leftist president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), is expected to call for snap parliamentary elections as he aims to renegotiate the country’s contentious…

AFP/APP Colombo: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka's main Marxist politician, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, has taken a comfortable lead in the presidential election, which has turned into a referendum on an unpopular IMF bailout. Early results…

AFP/APP Colombo: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka began voting for its next president on Saturday in what is seen as an effective referendum on the unpopular International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity plan, implemented after the island nation’s…

AFP/APP Colombo: Retired Sri Lankan accountant Milton Perera had hoped to use his vote in upcoming presidential elections to vent his fury at political mismanagement and an economic crisis that slashed healthcare. Instead, his widow…

AFP/APP Colombo: Sri Lanka's first presidential elections since an unprecedented economic crisis spurred widespread unrest will be held in September, the election commission said Friday. The election will be the first test of the…

News Desk  Karachi:The Pakistan Women's Cricket Team departed from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi to Colombo via Dubai on Tuesday to participate in the Asia Cup. The team will play their first match in the tournament against…

News Desk Colombo: A Hindu religious festival in Sri Lanka turned chaotic when an elephant in the procession panicked, causing 13 people to be injured as they fled, police reported on Sunday. Video footage shared on social media…

Xinhua/APP Colombo: The population of dengue mosquitoes in Sri Lanka that transmit the dengue virus has increased by 29.5 percent, state media reported on Saturday, quoting the National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU). The NDCU said the…