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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Following his election victory in Colombo among the new president's priorities are negotiations with the International ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the Aragalaya movement, won the Sri Lankan presidential election, with his National ...

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

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