If passed into law, the amendments would reinstate democratic reforms made in 2015. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was ousted as president by angr...

Army and police personnel arrived in trucks and buses around midnight, removing tents and protest banners at the site near the presidential...

Bankruptcy has forced the island nation's government to a near standstill. Its once-beloved and now reviled former President Gotabaya Rajap...

The president vowed last month to stay on until his five-year term ended in 2024, despite the anger his tenure prompted among the people. T...

The president vowed last month to stay on until his five-year term ended in 2024, despite the anger his tenure prompted among the people. T...

Protesters remained in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence, his seaside office and the prime minister’s official home, which they took...

"Gotabaya Rajapaksa may have been the most powerful of the Rajapaksa brothers in terms of popular support and the constitutional capacity h...

Many protesters accuse Wickremesinghe of trying to save Rajapaksa when he came under pressure to resign and every other member of his power...

Sri Lanka has suffered through months of food and fuel shortages, lengthy blackouts and galloping inflation after running out of foreign cu...

The carrier struggled with a stretched balance sheet even before Covid-19 and may fail to make payments to aircraft lessors, Bloomberg Inte...

Gopal Baglay, the Indian envoy to Sri Lanka, delivered the donation from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka's Foreign Min...

For months, Sri Lankans have had to wait in long lines to buy essential items because a foreign exchange crisis caused shortages of importe...

Late Thursday hundreds of people tried to storm the home of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the current president and one of four politically active br...

The year began with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visiting Sri Lanka in early January, saying "I am starting 2021 with a visit to ...

Sirisena, who dethroned Mahinda Rajapaksa after a bitter presidential poll on January 9, has indicated that he wants to have closer relatio...

In a stunning verdict, Sri Lankan voters ousted President Rajapaksa from power, ending a 10-year rule that was marked by allegations of fam...

I first visited Sri Lanka in 1997, shortly after a rebel bombing of the central bank headquarters had thrown the financial system into chao...