The Indian Ocean nation has been paralysed since October 26 when Sirisena deposed Ranil Wickremesinghe...

Sirisena dissolved parliament last week and called elections, but the Supreme Court ordered a suspension...

Parliament passed the no-confidence motion against recently appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa...

The Supreme Court stayed a presidential decree to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections on Tuesday...

There was no immediate comment from Sirisena or Rajapakse after the Supreme Court's unanimous...

Sirisena's move to sack the parliament has drawn international criticism

Mark Field, the British minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, tweeted his concern about the dissolution...

Rajapakse said he was meeting with lawyers ahead of a slew of legal challenges in the Supreme Court to...

In what opponents condemned as an illegal move, Sri Lankan President Sirisena dissolved parliament on...

On Friday, 118 members of the 225-seat legislature met the speaker and called for the reconvening of...

It was not clear if and when the 225-member parliament would vote on the UNP's motion that Wickremesinghe's...

President Maithripala Sirisena fired him last month after months of tensions within the government and...

The Sunday Times of Colombo newspaper described the sacking of the prime minister as 'sheer political...

The TNA has still said it will back a motion against Rajapakse that the UNP has submitted to be taken...

Rajapaksa has been accused by diplomats of serious human rights abuses in the war against rebels from...

The country has been locked in a tense standoff between two rivals claiming to head Sri Lanka's government...

The US State Department on Sunday urged Sirisena to "immediately reconvene parliament" to allow...

President Sirisena is due to address the nation later Sunday

Nearly 4,000 of more than 62,000 refugees living in camps in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have...

Rangana Herath has taken 430 wickets in 92 tests and is 10th on the list of most successful bowlers in...

As with the other wins, the decision came with the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern run rate system,and England...