Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement that he informed Rajapaksa that parliamentary leaders had met and decided to request he leave office, and the president agreed.

Two days before turning 79, Mahinda Rajapaksa, twice president and prime minister of Sri Lanka, vowed to persist in politics ...

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The National People’s Power won a parliamentary election that will allow the country’s new president to unroll his reform ...

Watch: The prime minister's home on fire, after protesters broke in and set it alight Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced he will step down after protesters stormed his official ...

President Gotabaya, who is the last Rajapaksa still clinging to national office, has not been seen outside his heavily guarded compound. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, backed by the ruling coalition led ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka ahead of his expected resignation as president President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka on a military jet, amid mass protests over the island's ...

Sri Lanka has had no functioning government for nearly two weeks and is facing the prospect of being unable to pass a budget for next year. Sri Lankan Army Captures De-facto Capital of Tamil ...

SLPP National Organizer Namal Rajapaksa claimed that his uncle Basil Rajapaksa leaving the country on the eve of the recently concluded presidential election contributed to his heavy defeat at that ...

Colombo, Oct 15 (Daily Mirror) - The Cabinet has approved the appointment of Sandya Kumudini Rajapakse as the new Government Analyst. Rajapakse, currently serving as Assistant Government Analyst ...

The Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium was especially built for the mega event, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. The stadium is located in Hambantota, and boasts of a capacity of ...