The Latest Breaking News from Mahinda Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka's top court on Friday barred former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa from leaving the country without permission until July 28, anti-corruption group Transparency International Sri Lanka said.

Wickremesinghe says he will follow constitutional process and establish law and order in crisis-hit country.

For much of nearly two decades, the four Rajapaksa brothers and their sons have run Sri Lanka like a family business -- and a disorderly one, at that. With their grand construction projects and spendthrift ways, they saddled Sri Lanka with unsustainable debts, driving the country into its worst economic…

Indian High Commission ‘categorically denies’ reports that India facilitated the Rajapaksas’ recent travel

The promised official resignation letter from Sri Lanka’s president, who has fled to the Maldives, has yet to materialise as protests continue in Colombo.

The double whammy of government and economic instability is further complicating recovery, and the country is hurtling toward bankruptcy.

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was named acting president of Sri Lanka on Wednesday as its political and economic crisis deepened, is tantalisingly close to the pinnacle of power but may not get much time to enjoy it.

Unprecedented economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as he flees to the Maldives.

Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis, and on Wednesday, the country's president flew out of the country days after a huge crowd of protesters stormed his residence. The island nation of 22 million people has suffered months of lengthy blackouts, acute food and fuel shortages…