Sri Lanka's political campaigning drew to a close Monday ahead of parliamentary polls that have turned into a referendum on ambitious plans to tackle corruption in the bankrupt nation.

Politbureau Member Geethanath Cassilingham has been appointed as the Jaffna District Organizer of the party, by its leader ...

Basil shouldn’t have left country on the eve of Prez poll Mahinda should have retired after 2015 defeat Political marriage ...

The Chinese family’s fortunes mirror Sri Lanka’s ties with China. Sri Lanka leaned towards China during the heyday of ...

A committee in Sri Lanka will review the privileges of former presidents, following President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is following former Presidents – Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa – when it ...

The defeat led to a formal split in the UNP with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) emerging as a separate outfit under Sajith ...

"The Presidential Secretariat has noted recent media reports claiming that the security of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa ...

Be that as it may, coming back to next Thursday’s General election. There have been few maga political meetings. Other than ...

The next president in Sri Lanka was Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005-2015). I remember one time when he gave a speech and I was close to him taking his photograph. He gave me a look that made me shiver. I ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

The wife of a Sri Lankan cartoonist and political analyst who was forcibly disappeared over a decade ago has been joined by ...