Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who won Sunday's elections in Sri Lanka, is 55 years old and is the most left-wing president in the country's history; he is the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a party still described as Marxist-Leninist

The annual nature and wildlife photography exhibition 2024, organised by the Young Zoologists' Association of Sri Lanka, opened at the JDA Perera Gallery in Colombo and will continue until Sunday

Israeli citizens visiting Sri Lanka, whether for tourism or other reasons, can now directly request assistance to ensure personal protection, according to a new telephone number provided by the Sri Lankan police

Sri Lanka has decided to apply for membership of the BRICS and the New Development Bank; Foreign Minister says neither he nor the new president will be able to attend the October summit in Russia for the upcoming parliamentary elections of 14 November

The second Resilience, Stability, and Economic Turnaround development policy operation has been signed with the World Bank for $200 million, the second operation in a two-part series that began in 2022