COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept ... Votes will be cast throughout the day on Sept. 21, with results expected to be out by evening the following ...

Sri Lanka is set to hold its presidential election on September 21 ... on September 21 and the results are expected the following day. First, all first-choice votes will be counted.

Half-day leave if the polling station is within ... what could be one of the most contentious and transformative elections in Sri Lanka's history. The inaugural session of the Tenth Parliament ...

FILE - Sri Lankan President ... the 76th Independence Day commemoration ceremony of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 4, 2024. Sri Lanka’s independent elections commission has said ...

despite Sri Lanka’s importance to Asian elephant conservation. For Rathnayake, it’s not just elephants that authorities have to look out for on polling day. In previous elections, some of the ...

Campaigning ended at midnight on Monday, 48 hours before election day. Sri Lanka has 17.1 million voters who are eligible to participate in the election. About 1 million of them are first-time voters.

“At stake is the ability of newly-elected President Dissanayake to pursue the ambitious agenda that won him election in September,” Alan Keenan, a senior consultant on Sri Lanka for the ...

First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath on Monday commended Sri Lanka’s significant progress in economic reforms and ...