A Supreme Court ruling denounced former President Maithripala Sirisena and some of his top officials for what it called “reckless failure” to prevent the attacks, which killed more than 200 people. By ...

Maithripala Sirisena, the man who this week defeated Sri Lanka’s president of the past decade, will be sworn in to the office on Friday evening. Mr. Sirisena -- who served in the cabinet of his ...

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told our sister paper in Gampaha that that there was talk going around that he was going to resign from the government. The Minister had gone to the funeral of ...

Colombo, May 30 (Daily Mirror) - A contempt of court application has been filed before the Court of Appeal against former President Maithripala Sirisena for allegedly disregarding an order made by the ...

During a time when we’ve seen democratic backsliding across the globe, Sri Lanka was a purported political success story. A pair of elections in 2015, including the surprising ascension of Maithripala ...

Sri Lanka’s new leader plans to dissolve the country’s Parliament in May, setting the island nation on course for general elections in late June or early July — around the same time that he plans to ...

The leave to appeal application filed by former President Maithripala Sirisena challenging the Negombo District Court’s order to proceed with the cases filed against him by the victims of the ...

Maithripala Sirisena must prove his bona fides to the Rajapaksas by formally pulling out the SLFP from the government. The bottom line in this sordid exercise is that Mahinda does not trust ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has conceded defeat in an election seen as ...