Sri Lankan Freedom Party

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today inducted seven new ministers in his government, including a Tamil who is the only elected representative of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party from Jaffna, the capital of northern district.

Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn-in as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister today, returning to the office for a fourth term after his party won the closely contested general election.

General election victor Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday called on Sri Lankans to unite as he set about the task of forming a national unity government that will seek to heal the divisions of the past.

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today filed nomination papers to contest the August 17 parliamentary elections.

The Telangana government today announced that late former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's life history will soon be taught to students in the state's schools, on occasion of his 94th birth anniversary.

Sri Lankan ruling party coalition today refused to make former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a prime ministerial candidate, dashing his efforts to return to front line politics.

Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse has decided to contest for the post of prime minister in the parliamentary elections scheduled to be held after April 23.

Sri Lanka's new government cleared its first test in parliament Saturday, securing a crushing majority for a welfare budget unveiled last month.

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party Sunday won a whopping landslide in the first semi-autonomous council elections in the island's north after decades of ethnic war.

Sri Lanka's minority Tamils began voting on Saturday to elect what they hope will give them a shot at self-rule after decades of ethnic bloodshed that claimed over 100,000 lives.

Ahead of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Colombo to discuss India's ",grave concern", over the military campaign against Tamil Tigers, a radical Sri Lankan party on Sunday called for a parliamentary debate on the perceived ",Indian intervention", in the island nation. Wimal Weerawansa, leader of the newly formed Nation...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today inducted seven new ministers in his government, including a Tamil who is the only elected representative of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party from Jaffna, the capital of northern district.

Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn-in as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister today, returning to the office for a fourth term after his party won the closely contested general election.

General election victor Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday called on Sri Lankans to unite as he set about the task of forming a national unity government that will seek to heal the divisions of the past.

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today filed nomination papers to contest the August 17 parliamentary elections.

The Telangana government today announced that late former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's life history will soon be taught to students in the state's schools, on occasion of his 94th birth anniversary.

Sri Lankan ruling party coalition today refused to make former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a prime ministerial candidate, dashing his efforts to return to front line politics.

Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse has decided to contest for the post of prime minister in the parliamentary elections scheduled to be held after April 23.

Sri Lanka's new government cleared its first test in parliament Saturday, securing a crushing majority for a welfare budget unveiled last month.

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party Sunday won a whopping landslide in the first semi-autonomous council elections in the island's north after decades of ethnic war.

Sri Lanka's minority Tamils began voting on Saturday to elect what they hope will give them a shot at self-rule after decades of ethnic bloodshed that claimed over 100,000 lives.

Ahead of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Colombo to discuss India's ",grave concern", over the military campaign against Tamil Tigers, a radical Sri Lankan party on Sunday called for a parliamentary debate on the perceived ",Indian intervention", in the island nation. Wimal Weerawansa, leader of the newly formed Nation...