Sri Lanka goes to local polls after 7-year gap, first under Dissanayake govt

Colombo, May 6 (IANS) Sri Lanka on Tuesday held the local government elections, following a seven-year hiatus and the first of its kind conducted after National People's Power (NPP), led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, came to power last year. Out of the total of 341 local bodies, the elections are being conducted for 339 bodies across the island nation,...