“The prime minister has sent his letter of resignation to the president,” an official who declined to be named told Reuters on Monday. The move comes days after President Gotbaya Rajapaksa, the prime ...

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa vacated his official residence in Colombo on Thursday, a day after Parliament passed the Presidents' Entitlements (Repeal) Bill with an overwhelming ...

NEW DELHI — With one brother serving as president, another as prime minister and three more relatives as Cabinet ministers, it appeared that the Rajapaksa clan had consolidated its grip on power in ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—President Maithripala Sirisena late Friday removed his party from the ruling coalition and ousted the prime minister, appointing in his place the controversial former President ...

Six months ago, Maithripala Sirisena pulled off a stunning electoral upset in Sri Lanka, defying expectations to defeat incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a national election. Sirisena, a former ...