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

After all, the criticism of media, legitimate or self-interested, is way better than white-vanning journalists, bombing media ...

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

The Government is confronted with many challenges including finalising debt restructuring and strictly following the ...

Sri Lanka votes for new parliament as President Dissanayake pushes for majority after securing only 42.3% in presidential ...

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.

Dissanayake, an outsider of the family parties that have dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades, swept to power promising ...

The decline of democracy in Nazi Germany, of course, has been deeply studied. But have there been nations heading in that ...

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

“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 ...

to ascertain what kind of government may be expected under his leadership if the National People’s Power alliance led by him ...

The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa -- the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna ...