The voting population is increasingly vocal about breaking free from established political figures and their entrenched ...

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

Mahinda Rajapaksa, who dominated Sri Lankan politics ... the ex-minister told a Sinhala-language news conference, smiling. House of Cards in the Indian Ocean Fears of 'bloodbath' in Sri Lanka ...

A two-thirds majority drove President Mahinda Rajapaksa to abuse power to his heart’s content ... no need will arise for roads to be barricaded again near the President’s House and Temple Trees.

Mahinda Rajapaksa attended a religious ceremony after ... signed his resignation letter in a ceremony at his house. Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to return to office on Sunday.

Protesters stormed the president's house in July ... peaceful protests demanding the resignation of Mr Rajapaksa and his elder brother Mahinda, the then prime minister who quit in May.

Although it is Mr Rajapaksa's official residence, he usually sleeps at a separate house nearby. His brother, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, is at a naval base in the country, the sources ...

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned amid mass protests ... of Weeraketiya also opened fire on protesters at his house, killing two and wounding five others.

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently accused certain media institutions of propagating fake news. His grouse was over ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

On Monday, Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, warned that the South Asian country is almost out of gasoline and the "next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our ...