Far from simply balancing between the major powers, Dissanayake and the JVP/NPP have made abundantly clear that his ...

“We should see beyond the immediate horizon and buy into future changes,” wrote Dr Ishrat Husain in his recent position paper for The Centre for Governance and Research. “Concerns, criticism and ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament and called for a parliamentary election in an ...

Young Anura Dissanayake grew up amid lush paddy fields, ancient irrigation tanks and vegetable plots. Though a typical, happy ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Senior Deputy Inspector General Priyantha Weerasuriya as the acting police chief, replacing Deshabandu Tennakoon, who was suspended by the ...

Sri Lankans elected left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their 10th president last Saturday. The election of 55 year old Dissanayake marked the end of the dynastic political culture that ...

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 ...

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday as the new president of Sri Lanka after the country’s national elections this weekend. The 55-year-old self-described Marxist ran as an outsider from ...