Sri Lanka elected its first left-wing president on September 21. Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42 percent of votes cast, ...

A team of International Monetary Fund officials is set to visit Sri Lanka this week and meet President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The IMF team was making a courtesy visit, said Professor Anil Jayantha ...

Sri Lanka experienced a drop in consumer prices for the first time in 39 years, with September inflation at negative 0.5 percent, compared to August's ...

New Delhi will be watching how Dissanayake and his party’s close ties with China impact the regional power balance ...

The Parliament of Sri Lanka has signed an agreement with the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) to enhance cooperation between the two legislative institutions.

A new President has been elected and a government formed, with Parliamentary elections fixed for mid-November, to decide the ...

“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 ...

In a sharp rebuke to dynastic rule in Sri Lanka, voters recently elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a working class, neo-Marxist leader and head of the National People’s Power. His victory with 42 ...

Sri Lanka's central bank has produced 0.1 percent deflation over the past 12-months based on the widely watched Colombo ...

C.P. Chandrasekhar, et al urge the country’s new government to eschew austerity and renegotiate its IMF bailout.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. But any Sri Lankan leader’s position is precarious today.

By Sivamohan Sumathy These are new times indeed. The country is in a celebratory mood. We have a brand new President, and a ...