Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...

The new President has held detailed discussions with the Central Bank governor and his team, opting not to reshuffle them.

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

Caught between domestic desperation and the manacles of foreign debt, Sri Lanka’s Marxist leader and newly elected president ...

A fortnight later, when the votes were counted, Anura won a clear mandate, beating key challengers like Sajith Premadasa of ...

In a landmark victory that has reshaped the political landscape of Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake has emerged triumphant in the nation’s 2024 presidential election, held on September 21.

You could blame the Buddhist extremists of the majority Sinhalese population who led the first pogroms against the Tamil minority in 1958, or the Marxist insurrection that broke out in 1971 (30,000 ...

Voters who earlier backed other candidates and the usual smaller number from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) contributed ...

Prof. Anil Jayantha, head of the NPP Economic Council, said the JVP/NPP will proceed with the IMF programme without derailing it and meet the programme’s objectives in a way different from the ...

AFP: Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt ...

Young Anura Dissanayake grew up amid lush paddy fields, ancient irrigation tanks and vegetable plots. Though a typical, happy ...