Military personnel and police at both locations were unable to hold back the crowd, as they chanted slogans asking President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down.

Sri Lanka's military evacuated outgoing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa from his official residence in Colombo in an early morning operation on Tuesday, hours after the leader resigned and ...

The building then became known as the President’s House as Sri Lanka became a republic. It became the official residence of the head of state, with the President’s Secretariat located at the ...

Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence.

In Sri Lanka, the stakes were much more dramatic. What if the war had transformed the village? What if all the landmarks had been wiped out, a new civilization in place of the old?

Travel Travel News Holidays Brit discovers 'Little England' in Sri Lanka - with cobblestone paths and red brick houses Kara Wildbury, who is currently travelling around Asia, was left stunned ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) alliance won a landslide victory in Sri Lanka’s general election on November 14, nearly two months after NPP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known as AKD ...

But it was in 2022 that social media cemented its role as a game-changer in Sri Lanka, usurping traditional media houses and journalists.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to data released by the Election Commission Sunday, as voters rejected the old ...

An 18th century Dutch house in Sri Lanka is reborn Peter Harris fell in love with the building on his first stay there 20 years ago, when he was on holiday with his family Reading Time:5 minutes ...

BUYING a crumbling, century-old mansion on a Sri Lankan hillside for £315,000 is a gamble many would shy away from taking – but one that’s paid off royally for four pals. Built in 1912 … ...

But to borrow with apologies from the old Marxist adage of an entirely different reality, the ‘old’ is withering away and the ‘new’ is struggling to take root. In the interim, Sri Lanka’s Presidency ...