COLOMBO, (REUTERS) – Sri Lanka’s leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on September 23, promising change in the island nation long led by powerful political families ...

“Katunayake FTZ workers skip travel home to vote due to high bus fares” reported ... to negotiate potential exemptions. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself engaged in formal correspondence with ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Disanayaka is on a 4-day visit ... ‘Biggest scam': Bengaluru CEO on India's silent middle-class salary crisis Maharashtra approves new housing policy after ...

The president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, was elected in September but his National People's Power (NPP) coalition had just three of parliament's 225 seats, prompting him to ...

After Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... now split to form numerous fragments—and ruling class dynasties that led them. At the same time, Dissanayake and his party reassure the ruling class that ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake waves to party supporters during an election ... Still, this outcome is an incredible upset, against all the obstacles of power, class, and capital that were standing in AKD’s ...

On September 21, 2024, Sri Lankans participated in the country's ninth presidential election, with approximately 17 million out of the 22 million population eligible to vote. In the first round of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri ... South Asian island nation two years ago. Dissanayake, whose pro-working class populist campaign won him youth support ...

Commanders of the security forces stand behind as Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addresses a gathering after he was sworn in at the Sri Lankan President's Office in Colombo ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading ...