Colombo: Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's son Yoshitha Rajapaksa was arrested by police on Saturday on corruption charges in a property purchase case. Ex-navy officer Yoshitha was ...

Namal Rajapaksa (L), presidential candidate for the SLPP party, discusses his manifesto with his father, former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa (R), at an event in Colombo (EPA) ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned on Monday with his country in economic free fall, bowing to months of protests in a significant blow to the ...

NEW DELHI — Sri Lanka’s powerful Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned Monday after violence between government supporters and furious protesters threatened to plunge the economically ...

The Rajapaksa family, including the president’s brother, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, dominated the country’s politics for years, but were largely blamed for the desperate ...

There are falls from grace and then there’s what’s happening to Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka. For the better part of the past two decades, he loomed large over the island nation’s politics ...

Even though Mahinda Rajapaksa was adored by the country’s majority Buddhist Sinhalese for defeating the ethnic Tamil separatists after a 26-year bloody civil war, allegations of human rights ...

That victory gave Mahinda Rajapaksa an almost inexhaustible well of political capital to draw on and he would go on to enjoy a 10-year grip on power during which he was venerated by Sri Lanka’s ...

The move by Mahinda Rajapaksa came after his supporters instigated violent clashes in Colombo, the capital. It wasn’t immediately clear whether his resignation would satisfy opponents.

Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa sits at the head of a long banquet table, presiding over what looks like a hotel’s lunch buffet. The mood is informal as Cabinet ministers, their clerks ...