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

Ignoring the democratic aspirations of voters across South Asia has put New Delhi in an awkward position with a slew of new ...

Dissanayake’s victory represents a significant political shift in Sri Lanka which is still grappling with an economic fallout ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on ...

Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and ...

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

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

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

The Congress Party congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his win in the Sri Lankan presidential elections. Dissanayake, ...

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

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders and overthrow the government in an armed insurrection. On Sunday, he won the ...