Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka's first and only female president to date, said actions taken by the Rajapaksa regimes had led to a serious crisis s...

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

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

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

Rajapaksa was appointed as the premier on October 26 by President Maithripala Sirisena after sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe, plunging the nat...

Maithripala Sirisena said he allowed Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest parliamentary polls for the fear of a split in party but vowed not to mak...

Sirisena said he never supported Rajapaksa's nomination for the August elections and that his predecessor will lose again.

Rajapaksa, 69, who lost to Sirisena in the January presidential election, publicly announced yesterday that he wanted to lead an opposition...

Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa plans to return to mainstream politics as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the main opposi...

Former Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressed fears that the new government led by Maithripala Sirisena might end up prosecuting his ...

69-year-old Rajapaksa has been asked to appear before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) on April ...

Nimal Siripala de Silva is the current leader of Opposition. Gunawardena has led a nation-wide to bring Rajapaksa back to politics.

After winning the election, Sirisena claimed the party leadership even as Rajapaksa's loyalists initially refused to back him, threatening ...

JVP complained about 12 individuals and institutions, which also include two ministers while others are high-ranking officials of the Rajap...

The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) called on the Bribery and Corruption Commission to probe Rajapaksa and his family members over ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa is locked in a grim battle for survival in this week's presidential election, facing strong internal revolt.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, who enjoys support among the Sinhalese majority, claimed he had freed the island from terrorism & given unprecedented de...