The Communist Party of Sri Lanka founded on July 3rd 1943, celebrates its 82nd Anniversary today. Though established in 1943, ...

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk made several pronouncements in Sri Lanka which tell us that he ...

We now have bare minimum of requirement’ About 90 percent of land, held by the armed forces during the war in the Northern and Eastern provinces, had been released, in stages, since 2010, A group of ...

Even though Mahinda Rajapaksa was adored by the country's majority Buddhist Sinhalese for defeating the ethnic Tamil separatists after a 26-year bloody civil war, allegations of human rights ...

Even though Mahinda Rajapaksa was adored by the country’s majority Buddhist Sinhalese for defeating the ethnic Tamil separatists after a 26-year bloody civil war, allegations of human rights ...

That victory gave Mahinda Rajapaksa an almost inexhaustible well of political capital to draw on and he would go on to enjoy a 10-year grip on power during which he was venerated by Sri Lanka’s ...

Sri Lanka's former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, left, gestures after taking oath as its prime minister toward his brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, during a ceremony in Colombo on Nov. 21, 2019.

Sri Lanka: With the no-confidence motion, the Opposition sought to demonstrate how nationwide calls for President Rajapaksa's resignation are reflected in Sri Lanka’s 225-member legislature.

Mr Rajapaksha is not related to the ruling Rajapaksa family but comes from the same home district of Hambantota. House Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said 23 votes were rejected.

There are falls from grace and then there’s what’s happening to Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka. For the better part of the past two decades, he loomed large over the island nation’s politics ...