Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People's Power (NPP), defeated his closest ...

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

President Ranil Wickremesinghe was the first to officially register for Sri Lanka's presidential election set for Sept. 21. With nearly 17 ...

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

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...

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...

Varun SJB Rana married Padmaja Jadeja of the Gujarat Jamnagar royal family at Rajasthan in first Rana wedding held out of Nepal.