FILE - In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Sri Lankan Buddhist monks walk towards the U.N. office in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka, which will elect a new president on ...

Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on November 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the island nation elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new President.

Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country’s previous administration was “covering up facts” about its crippling financial crisis. Former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ...

Sri Lanka crisis: Protesters are blaming Rajapaksa family for the current situation. Sri Lanka is hit by a crisis, with its economy crumbling under the weight of massive foreign debt and steep ...

Despite the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which waged an armed struggle for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka's north-east, life for the Tamil minority remains ...