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 ...

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

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.

The new president took office with a mandate to bring relief to citizens, but the hard part is getting the lenders to play ...

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

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

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

By Shafiya Rafaithu, Yathursha Ulakentheran and Ahilan Kadirgamar Sri Lanka has just elected a new President amidst a ...

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

On Sunday, the Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha called on Sri Lanka’s president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake to convey greetings from Prime Minister Naren ...

Any conflict between Tamil groups and Colombo could revive pre-2009 agitation in Tamil Nadu by pro-LTTE outfits and certain ...