In the meantime, Police Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa stated this afternoon that polling for Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election has been peaceful to a large extent, with no election-related violence reported so far. However, he noted that three ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition won a historic parliamentary supermajority in the country’s election, underscoring the depth of the support for the leftist leader who pledges to combat corruption and change the terms of an unpopular International Monetary Fund bailout.