Over 60 senior politicians from the previous administration have opted to stay out. The outgoing parliament was dominated by ...

Former Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan has been summoned to the Criminal ...

Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...

A two-thirds majority drove President Mahinda Rajapaksa to abuse power to his heart ... The fate that befell the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration is a case in point. Those who infuse the people with ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

STORY: Sudath Kumara and his wife Nilmini live in a house illegally built on state-owned land in Sri Lanka.They have nowhere ...

In Sri Lanka, Ginsburg and Huq pointed out, democracy was imperiled by the rise of Mahinda Rajapaksa, who won the presidency ...

About ten months ago, among other things, I informally discussed the devolution of power with Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who ...

A Sri Lankan Cabinet sub-committee is set to review former presidents' privileges, as the new government under President Dissanayake faces criticism over proposed cuts. The government affirms that ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive ...

When I wrote “Will SL govt. do better than the UK Labour administration?” (The Island, 18 October), I never imagined that ...