COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is set to hold its parliamentary election on Thursday with all arrangements in place to ensure a fair and transparent process, a top election commission official has said.

This would be the first electoral test for the current government led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake since it won the presidential and parliamentary elections in the last quarter of 2024.

COLOMBO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The Election Commission of Sri Lanka announced on Thursday that ... According to the commission, the elections will take place for 336 local government institutions ...

Faced with widespread food, fuel, and medicine shortages, commentators were quick to judge the country as a failing state.

Sri Lanka has made a truly remarkable turnaround since an uprising in 2022, but if the island nation is to achieve sustained ...

and conducting Provincial Council Elections,” Modi said in his media statement after the talks. The Tamil community in Sri Lanka has been calling for the implementation of the 13th Amendment to ...

The Election Commission (EC) and the Broadcaster’s Guild of Sri Lanka (BGSL) have locked horns after the EC ... and appointments during an election period could take place only with the prior approval ...

Sri Lanka's local council elections will be held on May 6, 2025, the country's Election Commission announced on Thursday (March 20, 2025.) The Commission set the date after accepting nominations ...