His successor Ranil Wickremesinghe managed to negotiate a bailout package worth $3bn with the International Monetary Fund - ...

His successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, entered into agreements with the IMF at a cost of $2.9 billion, which has restored some semblance of stability in the economy but has left so many citizens in ...

Since assuming office, Dissanayake has stayed on course with his predecessor Ranil Wickremesinghe’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme. The country is still in the process of ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that could give President Anura Kumara Dissanayake the mandate to ...

A nation of 22m just across the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka was crushed by a 2022 economic crisis triggered by a severe ...

Over 17 million Sri Lankans will have the chance to vote for the country’s tenth Parliament election weeks after Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic sec ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s 17.1 million voters head to the polls again on Thursday to vote in snap parliamentary elections, barely ...

Sri Lankans are voting in snap parliamentary elections on Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe, the outgoing President who lost to Dissanayake in last month’s presidential election, is not contesting a parliamentary election for the first time since 1977. The Rajapaksa ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

The NPP’s main opponents are the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, led by Sajith Premadasa, and the New Democratic Front, supported by ...

With Sri Lanka's economic recovery hanging in balance, President Dissanayake hopes voters give him a strong mandate for his ...