FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka's newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa gestures during the ceremony to assume duties at the Prime Minister office in Colombo, Sri Lanka October 29, 2018.

Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday to elect their 10th president. The final results of the elections are expected Sunday. This is the first election since the South Asian country plunged into an ...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], January 28 (ANI): Sri Lanka's foreign policy has often been slammed for its lack of consistency, but rarely have such sentiments been voiced by those in power. Recently, Prime ...

President Maithripala Sirisena has retained the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which was defeated by Lankan forces in 2009 after a bloody three-decade civil war. Colombo: Sri Lanka today ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India, caught flatfooted by the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Sri Lanka's premier, has opened urgent diplomatic and political contacts with the strongman who drew close to ...