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, ...

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

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 ...

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

US President Joe Biden has congratulated Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his election to office ...

It’s hard to know who ruined Sri Lanka, because there are so many plausible candidates. You could blame the Buddhist extremists of the majority Sinhalese population who led the first pogroms against ...

Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo (a title suggested by Netflix), receives expectedly rave reviews, with a Gen Z critic ...

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s biggest task is to pull the country out of its current economic crisis; Amit Shah’s comments on ...

Sri Lanka has elected left-wing President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who's seen something of a meteoric rise. His election ...

The Gazette Extraordinary detailing the division of institutions and responsibilities under the new Ministries has been ...