Sri Lanka’s governing coalition has prioritised stability and anti-corruption, but delayed reforms and missteps threaten its popular mandate.

There is a widespread view that the government is not adequately prioritizing and targeting social expenditure, which AKD promises to do.(via REUTERS) For all the hate speech and banality on social ...

The long awaited 2024 Presidential Election is done and dusted. Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) of the National People’s Power became the Ninth President of Sri Lanka. He gained a lead over his fellow ...

Setting all family-based traditions of political domination to a side, the election of the ‘relatively unknown’ 55-year-old Anura Kumar Dissanayake (AKD) of the JVP (People’s Liberation Front)-led NPP ...

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) The National People’s Power, ...

Sri Lanka’s AKD Government has revoked Adani Green Energy SL Ltd’s 484 MW of wind power plants contract. (Image/Reuters) Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

We, the citizens of Sri Lanka, have already witnessed significant reforms in governance under AKD’s leadership. This personally led process must continue consistently, free of bias, and within the ...

Sri Lanka's Cabinet of Ministers led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has revoked a decision to award a controversial 484 MW of wind power plants in Mannar and Pooneryn to Adani Green Energy SL ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known with convenient laziness as AKD, became Sri Lanka’s latest president after a runoff count focusing on preferential votes. The very fact that it went to a second count ...

JVP-led NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that the prevailing political economic culture, in Sri Lanka, required entrepreneurs to have political ties to do business in Sri Lanka. Addressing a ...

For the uninitiated in Sri Lanka, AKD in politico-strategic circles in the neighbouring India's capital, New Delhi, refers to Ajit Kumar Doval, the nation's all-important National Security Advisor ...