Sri Lankans have voted in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

“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 ...

Over 17 million voters from the islands 21 million population are eligible to vote for the 225-member Parliament for a ...

Sri Lanka’s economic upheaval led to a political crisis that forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign in 2022. Parliament then elected Wickremesinghe to replace him. The economy was ...

Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday as the first openly transgender candidate, hoping ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been sworn in as the Prime Minister before ... President Maithripala Sirisena’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the main constituent party of the UPFA, and Prime ...

When the Rajapaksas backstabbed Wickremesinghe by refusing to support his candidacy,over 90 MPs of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna(SLPP) crossed over to Ranil’s side. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s eldest son ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Welikada Prison ... connection with an unregistered BMW-type car assembled in Sri Lanka that was discovered in the car park of the Hilton Hotel ...

When the Rajapaksas backstabbed Wickremesinghe by refusing to support his candidacy, over 90 MPs of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) crossed over to Ranil’s side. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s eldest son ...

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Eric Schmitt An advanced missile defense system sent by the United States to Israel to thwart more attacks by Iran and its allies has arrived in Israel along with troops ...