AFP quoted Prime Minister's spokesman, Dinouk Colombage, as saying, "Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been decla...

Hundreds of anti-government protesters on Saturday stormed into Rajapaksa's residence in central Colombo's high-security Fort area after br...

President Rajapaksa informed the Speaker about this decision to quit after Abeywardena wrote to him seeking his resignation following the a...

Sri Lanka's economic crisis has created political unrest with a protest occupying the entrance to the president's office demanding his resi...

Sri Lanka is near bankruptcy and has severe shortages of essentials from food, fuel, medicines and cooking gas to toilet paper and matchsti...

The Parliament session began with mourning the murder of ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) lawmaker Amarakeerthi Athukorala, who wa...

The United National Party (UNP) leader was sworn-in by embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday, but his appointment has largely ...

On Tuesday, while many local television visuals showed anti-government protesters shouting slogans for the president to resign and also reb...

Violence erupted in Sri Lanka on Monday after supporters of then prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attacked peaceful anti-government protest...

Mahinda Rajapaksa, 76, resigned as Sri Lankan Prime Minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil, hours after his supporters atta...

Video footage showed the entire house of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Medam...

The violence occurred following reports that Mahinda Rajapaksa may offer to stand down as Prime Minister, as pressure mounted on the embatt...

Thousands of demonstrators have hit the streets across Sri Lanka since April 9, as the government ran out of money for vital imports; price...

Rajapaksa had called over the telephone both Premadasa and Harsha de Silva, the SJB economic guru, on the prospect of forming an interim go...

Sri Lanka is currently in the throes of an unprecedented economic turmoil since its independence from Britain in 1948. The crisis is caused...

Furious protesters have been demanding change in the political system and held Rajapaksas responsible for the present state of the economy ...

According to the Central Bank estimates, inflation and prices of essentials have surged to 17.5 per cent in February this year, and are exp...