Veteran Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is expected to unveil a populist budget on Friday hoping to shore up sagging electoral support ahead of a troubled bid to win a third term. Rajapakse, who is also finance minister, has advanced the budget for 2015 by a month to give his govt more time to implement widely predicted tax cuts and public sector pay rises ahead of snap elections in January. Read More
Sri Lanka set for populist budget ahead of snap polls
