The Latest Breaking News from Mahinda Rajapaksa

'How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises). "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." Sri Lanka is much the same.

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.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s exit ends the clan’s rule after more than 20 years as the nation battles its worst economic crisis.

Ranil Wickremesinghe to serve until MPs vote for new leader next week after months of protests over economic crisis

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent in his resignation letter from Singapore but the parliamentary Speaker is waiting for verification.

Man who paved way for Rajapaksa clan’s dominance over Sri Lanka politics has no immediate plans to flee, says top aide.

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.