Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka on Tuesday filed a petition in the supreme court in Colombo challenging the results of the January 26 polls and accused President Mahinda......
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday won a second term in office trouncing joint opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka, his one-time army chief who helped him crush the LTTE, and the......
The first presidential elections in Sri Lanka in the post-LTTE era evoked enthusiastic response on Tuesday from the voters who turned up in large numbers to decide the fate of incumbent Mahinda......
Sri Lanka's Marxist-backed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse Friday won the closely-fought presidency with a narrow 50.33% of the popular vote, official results showed.Bomb attack on......
He's been Sri Lanka's election chief for 10 years, overseen a dozen or so elections-- many of them violent -- and suffered six heart attacks: Dayananda Dissanayake thinks he's earned his......