Sajith Premadasa, leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a key contender in the upcoming presidential election. He aims to impleme...

According to officials, the Sri Lankan government has extended for an additional 20 years the petroleum products licence that Lanka IOC, th...

The election to appoint new administrations to 340 local councils for a four-year term has been postponed since March last year due to the ...

"Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a citizen of this country and he has the right to return to his motherland. No one can deny this right. However, he ...

The complaint by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena came hours before Parliament was poised to accept the nominations for the post of preside...

Sri Lanka's parliamentary speaker will convene the legislative body after receiving Rajapaksa's official resignation and its 225 members wi...

The Opposition charged that an unsolicited government-to-government agreement to build a 500 MW wind power plant in the northern coast with...

The 21st Amendment is expected to annul the 20A to the Constitution which gives unfettered powers to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after abo...

With the motion, the Opposition sought to demonstrate how nationwide calls for President Rajapaksa's resignation is reflected in the countr...

Wickremesinghe, the United National Party (UNP) leader was appointed as Sri Lanka's 26th prime minister on Thursday as the country was with...

Mahinda, 76, resigned as prime minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil in the country, hours after his supporters attacked a...

Prime Minister Rajapaksa will brief the local council members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and then, later on, he will announc...

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

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) handed over to the parliamentary Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena motions of no-confidence, even as the govern...

In the recent weeks, the powerful Buddhist clergy, civil society and trade chambers have demanded the formation of an interim government to...

The move comes as Sri Lanka's main Opposition party SJB on Friday announced that it will move a no-confidence motion against the government...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa imposed a state of emergency on Friday, the day after a crowd attempted to storm his home in the capital Colom...