Namal Rajapaksa, 38, has been named the SLPP presidential candidate, ending the Rajapaksa family's support for incumbent Ranil Wickremesing...

The ruling Sri Lanka People's Front of the Rajapaksas, commonly known by its Sinhalese name Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), will hold a...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe confirms the scheduling of the presidential election before the parliamentary election, in line with the Ele...

The BJP said the foreign leaders will also be given insights into the party's election campaign and will be briefed about its strategies an...

The majority of the junior ministers or lawmakers appointed in the ministers of state rank were from the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...

Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country on July 13 after months-long mass public demonstrations demanding his immediate resignation on July 9 gaine...

Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Dullas Alahapperuma, a dissident ruling party MP backed by the main opposition, and leftist Janatha ...

For the first time since 1978, Sri Lanka will elect the crisis-hit country's next president through a secret vote by the MPs and not throug...

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

More than a month of predominantly peaceful anti-government protests turned violent at the beginning of last week when supporters of the fo...

Most Opposition parties have said they would not take positions in the interim government led by Wickremesinghe but would support his moves...

More than a month of predominantly peaceful protests against the government turned violent this week after supporters of former Prime Minis...

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from the UK in 1948.

Rajapaksa had appointed Sabry after sacking his brother Basil Rajapaksa, who was at the centre of anger within the ruling Sri Lanka Podujan...

"Any Sri Lankan political party or group is permitted to have external links with any party or group overseas. But, our electoral laws do n...

Modi spoke to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, and congratulated him on the successful conduct of parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka. Pr...

Former Sri Lankan leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, who leads a rival faction of the ruling SLFP, has blamed his successor President Maithripala Si...