If Rajapaksa resigns as promised, constitutional provisions will get activated to elect his successor. Two persons will come under immediat...

Rajapaksa is likely to send his resignation letter only after reaching his final destination in Maldives. Sri Lanka's The Morning news port...

The meeting of the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) and its constituent parties will be attended by leader of the Opposition Sa...

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

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's elder brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned as prime minister last month after prolonged protests against the...

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...

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

Wickremesinghe, the 73-year-old United National Party (UNP) leader, was appointed as Sri Lanka's 26th prime minister on Thursday as the cou...

Rajapaksa, his wife Shiranthi, and their youngest son Rohitha and his family, left the Prime Minister's official residence, Temple Trees, e...

The violence occurred as pressure mounted on the embattled government led by his younger brother and President Gotabaya to form an interim ...

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

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

Sri Lanka is grappling with unprecedented economic turmoil since its independence from Britain in 1948. The crisis is caused in part by a l...

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

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...

Pro-Rajapaksa lawmaker, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, had told reporters that Rajapaksa decided in a meeting on Friday with President Sirisena...