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

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been accused ... atrocities committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and during Mr Rajapaksa's administration. Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera called his ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

One of the demonstrators in Colombo delivers a speech to the crowd Sri Lankans blame President Rajapaksa's administration ... constitutional experts say. But Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena is an ally ...

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 ...