which provoked mass protests and forced the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign. The election is seen as a referendum on President Ranil Wickremesinghe's two ...

The Opposition has taken umbrage at President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s talkathon, as it were, in Parliament last Friday, when the final vote on Budget 2025 was held. Some SJB MPs have claimed that ...

There were 35 candidates for the November 2019 presidential election won by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was forced out in 2022 after months of protests over his mishandling of the economy ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who won the presidential election in November 2019, resigned from the post in July 2022 amid a severe economic crisis in the South Asian country.

Colombo, March 18 (Daily Mirror) - The Supreme Court today ruled that a detention order issued by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2020 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a detention order, issued by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), in connection with a 2020 heroin possession case, ...

This was the first election since the country's economic crisis in 2022, which led to shortages of essential imports like fuel and medicine, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and resign ...