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 ...

The new president is an ordinary citizen in social terms with no pretensions to public display of power, taste, wealth or ...

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

Sri Lanka's debt restructuring process has neared its end and a bond exchange can be expected in six to eight weeks after ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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