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

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

“A fresh start.” That is how the leftist outsider candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, touted his against-the-odds victory in ...

Will President Dissanayake calibrate his foreign policy taking into account India's immediate security concerns? We need to ...

Sri Lanka’s new president called on Wednesday for restarting talks with the IMF “immediately” over a $2.9 billion bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country but imposed painful austerity.

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout that threw a ...

Dissanayake’s election as the new President of Sri Lanka has shown that patience and perseverance can win in the long run ...

During the campaign, Dissanayake said that he will renegotiate the bailout agreement with the IMF agreed by Wickremesinghe. He said he wants to make austerity measures more bearable for the poor. Sri ...

The newly elected president of Sri Lanka has pledged to soon start negotiating with the International Monetary Fund to help ...

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

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has essentially endorsed his predecessor President Ranil Wickremesinghe's efforts to ...

NEW Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has vowed to reopen discussions with the International Monetary Fund and foreign creditors to plot a way out of the country’s worst-ever economic ...