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

The election of the relatively unknown Anura Kumar Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s President comes as a true surprise ...

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 ...

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

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.

Sri Lanka is at a historic juncture. Faced with its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and having defaulted on ...

“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 ...

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.

Chathuranga Abeysinghe, Executive Committee member of the National People’s Power, appeared on a TV talk show last Tuesday, ...