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Sri Lanka was engulfed in turmoil on Saturday as the prime minister’s house was set on fire and thousands of protesters stormed the house of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and took over his offices as he continued to defy demands to resign. In extraordinary scenes, protesters demanding Rajapaksa step down...

Rajapaksa was moved to the Army headquarters last night following intelligence reports that the situation at Saturday's planned rally "would go out of control", a top government source told NDTV.

Thousands of furious protesters on Saturday scaled barricades and stormed the embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence in the high-security Fort area. These demonstrators had arrived from across the country in buses, trains and trucks.

16 MPs of President Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party in a letter requested him to resign immediately.

President plans to step down on July 13, says Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena

As thousands of protesters stormed Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksas residence in Colombo on Saturday demanding his governments resignation amid the ongoing economic crisis, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremmesinghe has summoned an emergency meeting with political party leaders to discuss the situation. �� Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe Summons Emergency Meeting As Protesters Storm President’s House.

In the wake of a looming political and economic storm in Sri Lanka, I took a train to the country’s cultural Kandy, with the intention to learn its popular traditional dance form called Ves Natum. This quest for the silver lining landed me in Amunugama, an ancient village named after the celebrated family of dancers and drummers who once performed at the courts of the Kandyan

Text and picture by PRIYAN DE SILVA   Presenting the findings of a research on ‘Freedom of Expression and  New media culture in Sri Lanka’  Programme Director at the Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum (SDJF) Mohamed Azad asserted that  61.8% of those who participated in the survey considered social media as a reliable source of information,  relating to […]

By Chaminda Silva The Norochcholai Coal Power Plant (NCPP) complex had coal to generate power for just 80 more days, internal sources say. They said that right now Unit 2 of the power plant was closed for maintenance. Although it will be back in operation within two months, the Unit 3 of the power plan […]

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa attended Parliament on Tuesday (05). His eldest son, Namal Rajapaksa recently denied social media reports that the former leader was receiving treatment at a private hospital. (Pic courtesy PMD)