(THE CONVERSATION) Sri Lankans voted for a new direction in leadership on Sept. 22, 2024, electing a leftist anti-poverty campaigner as president of the South Asian nation.

Although he may be ideologically inclined toward China, Dissanayake should be mindful of India’s interests too.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's tenth president by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya on Monday. With this, Dissanayake has officially become the first Marxist ...

India will also show a willingness to work with the new leader and expand bilateral ties, especially as it deals with an ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn into office Monday vowing to restore public faith in politics but ...

The new president's first challenge will be to steady the economy amid "anxieties felt by business and financial groups about ...

Sri Lanka's new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is tasked with leading the island nation, which has long been led by ...

In Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as president today, becoming the country’s first leftist leader. He won ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders and overthrow the government in an armed insurrection. On Sunday, he won ...

Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation ...

The growing support for Dissanayake, a center-left politician who ran on transparency and the working class, is a reflection ...