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

The post circulated weeks before 55-year-old JVP leader Dissanayake won the presidential vote in a landslide promising to ...

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, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday claimed he had won Sri Lanka’s presidential ...

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 ...

The main reason for worrying about Mr Dissanayake is not that he is a zealot. It is that he has little experience in ...