Caught between domestic desperation and the manacles of foreign debt, Sri Lanka’s Marxist leader and newly elected president ...

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

A fortnight later, when the votes were counted, Anura won a clear mandate, beating key challengers like Sajith Premadasa of ...

Rajan Philips It is no exaggeration to say that no previous Sri Lankan political leader has achieved what Anura Kumara Dissanayake accomplished this week. His leap from 418,553 (3.16%) in 2019 to ...

Mohan Mendis The 2019 and 2024 Sri Lankan presidential elections saw significant shifts in political leadership and voter ...

Voters who earlier backed other candidates and the usual smaller number from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) contributed ...

The janatha aragalaya (people’s struggle in Sinhala) that convulsed Sri Lanka in 2022 summer sought to shake up the country’s ...

The economic challenges loom large, but the task before the new president is much larger. It involves uniting the ethnic and religious communities, eradicating corruption, introducing a work ethic, ...

In a message conveyed to the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Government of the Republic of ...

You could blame the Buddhist extremists of the majority Sinhalese population who led the first pogroms against the Tamil minority in 1958, or the Marxist insurrection that broke out in 1971 (30,000 ...

Can Dissanayake steer the country out of its economic woes? A big cleanup job lies ahead for the new Sri Lankan President - Muhammad Yunus meets Shehbaz Sharif in New York - Meryl Streep speaks up for ...

Can Dissanayake steer the country out of its economic woes? A big cleanup job lies ahead for the new Sri Lankan President - Muhammad Yunus meets Shehbaz Sharif in New York - Meryl Streep speaks up for ...