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, romped ...

Thousands of protesters were refusing to budge from the official residences of Sri Lanka's president and its prime minister on Monday, having occupied both homes for days. A wave of national outrage ...

On 20 July 2022, a man who had recently lost a parliamentary election was appointed President of Sri Lanka. A closer look at what led to Ranil Wickramasinghe’s presidential reign highlights an array ...

This weekend, as a mobilization of the Sri Lankan working class took over Colombo, stormed the president’s office and forced President Gotabhaya Rajapakse to flee, Sri Lankan workers in Europe took to ...

Sri Lankan law students are reporting for JURIST on the situation in that country since mass protests and the physical invasion of the President’s House in Colombo by demonstrators forced the ...

Irie Perera was visiting Colombo for a family wedding but says she has since sheltered about 25 people at her home in Gampola in the central province. The 61-year-old, who lives in Southend-on-Sea, ...

In this July 9, 2022, file photo, protesters sit and walk around after storming in at the Sri Lankan president’s office, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Credit: AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena Sri Lanka marked the ...

Just four days after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared the Sri Lankan economy had “completely collapsed,” the government has imposed a virtual lockdown on the country, telling people to ...

When Kolamba first opened in 2019, many diners who walked into the charming eatery in central London’s Soho district weren’t familiar with Sri Lankan cuisine. They thought it was just like Indian food ...

(New York) – The Sri Lankan government should withdraw a draft law that would give the authorities broad powers to detain people in military-run “rehabilitation” centers, placing them at great risk of ...

The film “Let Her Cry,” a tantalizing tale of an extramarital affair between an old professor and his seductive student, might not have been shown on screens in Sri Lanka a decade ago. Works that were ...