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

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has issued a special statement to mark the 16th year anniversary since the defeat of LTTE terrorism that plagued Sri Lanka for over three decades. Former President ...

Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Mahinda Rajapaksa who was the Executive of President during the wartime told off the UK over sanctions against former Chief of Defence Staff Shavendra ...

In 2018, Mahinda Rajapaksa persuaded Sirisena to dismiss Wickremesinghe and appoint him, Rajapaksa, as prime minister. Parliament was opposed and Sirisena tried to prevent it from meeting.

The 38-year-old leader is a scion of the powerful Rajapaksa family that produced two presidents - his father Mahinda and uncle Gotabaya - Namal is a surprise entrant, as the candidate of the Sri ...

The scion of the Rajapaksa family and national coordinator of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Namal Rajapaksa, has formally entered the contest for the country's next presidential election.

View (s): What’s the buzz, weird things are a happening on the election front Once upon a time not so long ago, Mahinda Rajapaksa was the soul and shepherd of the SLPP flock that would blindly trot ...

Colombo, March 8 (Daily Mirror) - The meeting among President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) leaders Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa ended with no final decision on ...

The success story of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s political journey brings to mind a noteworthy quotation from A. Huxley who said – ‘All authority belongs to the people’. A lawyer by profession, former ...

Now Ranil seems to have called his bluff. Almost all members of parliament including Mahinda Rajapaksa, except a small splinter group who have left the SLPP alliance, have expressed agreement to the ...

Three months after then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gave up office and fled Sri Lanka, the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is ambitiously embarking on a project to regain its power base in ...