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

Far from simply balancing between the major powers, Dissanayake and the JVP/NPP have made abundantly clear that his ...

A team from the International Monetary Fund will visit Sri Lanka this week and also meet President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, ...

"She had something in her personality. She was surely among the toppers, but didn't limit herself to academics," says Achla ...

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake's (AKD) victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People's Power (NPP) ...

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

Sri Lankans have elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president, putting their faith in his commitment to fight corruption and stabilize the economy. Dissanayake's victory comes after ...

“We should see beyond the immediate horizon and buy into future changes,” wrote Dr Ishrat Husain in his recent position paper for The Centre for Governance and Research. “Concerns, criticism and ...

Sri Lanka is at a historic juncture. Faced with its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and having defaulted on ...

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 ...