COLOMBO, (IANS) -Amidst violent clashes and unrest in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on May 9 resigned. He handed over his resignation to President and his younger brother ...

MUMBAI – "One down, one to go." That's a chant heard at anti-government protests late Monday in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, after the resignation of one of the two remaining Rajapaksa brothers – the ...

Anger at Sri Lanka's dire economic crisis has been simmering for months, with many laying the blame for widespread shortages and runaway inflation squarely at the feet of the ruling Rajapaksa family.

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and requested him to mobilise other Tamil parties in the northern province besides the dominant TNA to achieve ...

Sri Lanka's opposition, led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, threatens to overthrow the ruling NPP government. The opposition accuses ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ruled by nepotism and corruption. By Mujib Mashal and Pamodi Waravita A Supreme ...

WEERAKETIYA, Sri Lanka, May 12 (Reuters) - His beloved villa has been daubed in graffiti by protesters, and a museum dedicated to his father ransacked. Now former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda ...