Two years later, the family — shunned and pushed to political wilderness — is trying make a comeback via the Rajapaksa heir ...

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 ...

Chamal, then a Sub-Inspector in the Police, declined and offered the chance to his younger brother, Mahinda. The Rajapaksa family was large: nine siblings. In the absence of D. A. Rajapaksa, Chamal ...

The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election in September, his family's political party said Wednesday ...

The Rajapaksa family claims the charges are part of a political witch hunt, as they face revived corruption investigations under the new NPP government.

Ever since D.M. entered the Second State Council - 1936, the Hambantota District has been continuously represented in Parliament till today by one or more members of the Rajapaksa family, except ...

THE country’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family to challenge the incumbent president in Sept 21 polls, the first since the country’s unprecedented economic ...

Facing Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis, the Rajapaksa family's appeals to national security and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism may no longer be enough to keep them in power. The ruling coalition ...

THE new government welcomed United States sanctions against two senior figures from the former ruling Rajapaksa family over two notorious graft cases involving aircraft purchases. Former ...

The Rajapaksas in retreat: A look at Sri Lanka’s once powerful political family Here is a look at some key members of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa clan - from head of the family, Mahinda Rajapaksa ...