Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Senior Deputy Inspector General Priyantha Weerasuriya as the acting police chief, replacing Deshabandu Tennakoon, who was suspended by the ...

Sri Lankans elected left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their 10th president last Saturday. The election of 55 year old Dissanayake marked the end of the dynastic political culture that ...

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

Sri Lanka's central bank kept interest rates unchanged on Friday in line with expectations, citing domestic and global ...

Sri Lanka's central bank kept interest rates unchanged on Friday in line with expectations as the island nation waits for ...

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was already communicating with Sri Lanka's new economic team. "We are ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday claimed he had won Sri Lanka’s presidential ...

Sri Lanka’s new president took office with a mandate to bring relief to citizens still burdened by the remnants of the ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that he will soon resume discussions with the International Monetary ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday as the new president of Sri Lanka after the country’s national elections this weekend. The 55-year-old self-described Marxist ran as an outsider from ...

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