Sri Lanka's minority parties unite to demand a new Constitution, provincial elections, and solutions to land conflicts.

In August 1985, India deported prominent Sri Lankan Tamil leaders Anton Balasingham and S.C. Chandrahasan, sparking intense political debate.

Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking minorities launched a united front on Monday to demand a new constitution granting greater ...

US Ambassador Julie Chung (centre), with ITAK parliamentarians (from left): Kaveendiran Kodeeswaran, Elayathamby Srinath, Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, Thurairasa ...

Just over two months ago, the Tamils went to the polls for Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council elections with defiance, yet with a cautious sense of festivity. Military harassment of voters and ...

It has been almost 12 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end after the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since 2009, there has been a concerted effort to hold ...

ANJALI KAMAT: Today’s top story is Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s quarter-century-long civil war is in its final throes, with the militant Tamil separatist group the Tamil Tigers, or the LTTE, almost ...

At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It is a skill he has known for ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former defense secretary and brother of ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, emerged victorious in Sri Lanka’s presidential election last Sunday. Gotabaya was largely backed by the ...