The family, however, returned more powerful four years later, when Mahinda's brother was elected president. Gotabaya ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa ruled as president from ... the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 290 people. But the Rajapaksa family lost power unexpectedly in 2022 when Sri Lanka was engulfed ...

LW’s silence was worth more to the Rajapaksa family in particular, than to anybody else in the country. In fact, LW’s murder was apparently preceded by an unsuccessful attempt, in 2007, by Mahinda ...

Facing Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis, the Rajapaksa family's appeals to national security and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism may no longer be enough to keep them in power. The ruling coalition ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president's elder brother, resigned as prime minister in May after protests against the family turned violent. He remained in hiding at a military base in the east of the ...

Namal Rajapaksa, son of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa ... with the case scheduled for March 27. The Rajapaksa family claims the charges are part of a political witch hunt, as ...

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's efforts to have the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's Central Committee exert pressure on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse to reverse his decision to do away ...

Presidential hopeful Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse yesterday declared that he was ready to accept the challenge of establishing a unitary and peaceful Sri Lanka while devolving power to the maximum ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s foreign trips between 2010 and 2014 cost Rs 3,572 million. His successor, Maithripala Sirisena spent Rs 384 million on overseas travel from 2015 to 2019. Gotabaya Rajapaksa spent ...

Earlier this month, Sri Lanka's entire Cabinet -- aside from President Gotabaya and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa -- resigned from their posts after thousands of people ...