After parliamentary elections, Sri Lanka’s new president now has a commanding majority to pass his reform agenda.

Hundreds of fishermen staged a roadblock on the Pamban road bridge in Rameshwaram on Tuesday to demand the immediate release ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's police used Tuesday tear gas and water cannons to disperse an opposition protest in the island nation facing its worst economic crisis while gearing up for ...

Sri Lanka is in the midst of a foreign exchange ... public anger has reached a new high. The protest outside the President's house began peacefully, but participants say things turned violent ...

Security forces in Sri Lanka raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early on Friday, arresting protesters and dismantling tents. Hundreds of troops and police commandos moved ...

Sri Lanka, like many other developing countries, has seen the rise of corruption in politics over the years. Corruption is ...

Amnesty International also renewed its call for Sri Lanka to repeal the harsh, civil war-era Prevention of Terrorism Act, under which the two protest leaders are being held. Wasantha Mudalige and ...

Sri Lanka: Emergency laws extended amid crack down on protest leadersSri Lanka: Emergency laws extended amid crack down on protest leaders ...

Protesting against the frequent arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, fishermen virtually laid siege to the ...

The news of the day: the Indian Supreme Court criticises ‘bulldozer justice’; In New Zealand, Maori MPs oppose a bill to revise an indigenous-government treaty; An Iranian activist co ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

Hundreds of fishermen staged a roadblock on the Pamban road bridge in Rameshwaram on Tuesday to demand the immediate release of 23 fishermen who have been arrested by the Sri Lanka Navy ...