The election assumes significance as the country has still not come out of the economic crisis despite the IMF bailout ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is fighting an uphill battle for a fresh mandate. Can leading candidate Aruna Dissanayake stop Wickremesinghe's re-election bid? Will Ranil Wickremesinghe survive the ...

Polls closed in Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, AFP journalists saw, ending the island nation's first vote since an unprecedented economic crisis two years ago.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka held presidential elections on Saturday, serving as a de facto referendum on the contentious ...