A team of International Monetary Fund officials is set to visit Sri Lanka this week and meet President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The IMF team was making a courtesy visit, said Professor Anil Jayantha ...

In a sharp rebuke to dynastic rule in Sri Lanka, voters recently elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a working class, neo-Marxist leader and head of the National People’s Power. His victory with 42 ...

Sri Lanka elected its first left-wing president on September 21. Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42 percent of votes cast, ...

Sri Lanka's economy experienced a decrease in consumer prices for the first time in nearly four decades, according to ...

C.P. Chandrasekhar, et al urge the country’s new government to eschew austerity and renegotiate its IMF bailout.

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

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

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) kept the Standing Deposit Facility Rate at 8.25% and the Standing Lending Facility Rate ...

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

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent ...

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

COLOMBO, (REUTERS) – Sri Lanka’s leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on September 23, promising ...