Sri Lanka is “bankrupt,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Tuesday, as the country suffers its worst financial crisis in decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine and fuel.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has tendered his resignation amid an economic crisis and violent protests against he and his brother, the country's president.

Sri Lanka’s prime minister is no stranger to political shifts. Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had been in office only since May, said he would resign.

NEW DELHI — A crisis that threatened to derail Sri Lanka’s democracy ended Sunday when the country’s prime minister was reinstated by the president who ousted him from office seven weeks ...

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country’s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that ...

Former Sri Lankan ministers sentenced to decades in prison for corruption involving misappropriation of state funds and match-fixing allegations.

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Monday as the Indian Ocean ...

People in Sri Lanka have endured months of food and fuel shortages — the island nation's worst economic crisis in decades. The prime minister tendered his resignation amid violent protests.

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament and called for a parliamentary election in an effort to consolidate his mandate following his weekend election victory.

Accordingly, she became the third female Prime Minister in Sri Lankan history. She was sworn in as the Minister of Justice, Education, Labour, Industries, Science & Technology, Health, and ...

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday sentenced two former ministers from the government of deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to decades in prison in a landmark corruption case. Ex-sports minister ...

COLOMBO: Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister on Tuesday, becoming the first woman leader since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in the year 2000 to hold the post. The 54-year ...