Dissanayake made clear that the first order of business will be to impose savage International Monetary Fund austerity.

The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major ...

On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi ...

The main reason for worrying about Mr Dissanayake is not that he is a zealot. It is that he has little experience in ...

Given the economic and geopolitical scenario, pragmatism is likely to take precedence — Sri Lanka will continue to balance ...

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the Aragalaya movement, won the Sri Lankan presidential election, with his National ...

A delegation of the National People’s Power, which has emerged as a major political force following the 2022 mass protests, met top officials of India’s diplomatic and security establishment ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's tenth president on Monday after ...

Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt and went into bankruptcy. Rather than generate an outcome that would satisfy the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, was declared the winner of the Sri Lankan ...