The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was already communicating with Sri Lanka's new economic team. "We are ...

“A fresh start.” That is how the leftist outsider candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, touted his against-the-odds victory in ...

On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi ...

Sri Lanka’s new president called on Wednesday for restarting talks with the IMF “immediately” over a $2.9 billion bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country but imposed painful austerity.

The new president took office with a mandate to bring relief to citizens, but the hard part is getting the lenders to play ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout that threw a ...

Dissanayake made clear that the first order of business will be to impose savage International Monetary Fund austerity.

Sri Lanka's debt restructuring process has neared its end and a bond exchange can be expected in six to eight weeks after ...

Will President Dissanayake calibrate his foreign policy taking into account India's immediate security concerns? We need to ...

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) kept the Standing Deposit Facility Rate at 8.25% and the Standing Lending Facility Rate ...

The newly elected president of Sri Lanka has pledged to soon start negotiating with the International Monetary Fund to help ...

NEW Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has vowed to reopen discussions with the International Monetary Fund and foreign creditors to plot a way out of the country’s worst-ever economic ...