Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka arrests Rajapaksa ex-minister for alleged corruption

Shasheendra is the first Rajapaksa to be arrested since the leftist government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake came to power in September, promising to investigate corruption.

Former Sri Lanka ministers jailed up to 25 years for corruption

Sri Lanka’s former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage (L) speaks to a lawyer at a court in Colombo on May 29, 2025. A Sri Lankan court on May 29 sentenced two former ministers from the government of deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to decades in prison in a landmark corruption case. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Sri Lanka president vows to end island’s ‘corrupt’ image

Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake dispensed with the usual elaborate military pageantry of jet flyovers and horse parades to mark the 1948 handover of power.

With eyes on economy, Sri Lankans to vote for president in tight election

FILE PHOTO: A supporter reacts during an election campaign rally for Sajith Premadasa, leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) party, ahead of the presidential election, in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Thilina Kaluthotage/File Photo

Scion of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa family to contest Sept. presidential poll

FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka's newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his son Namal Rajapaksa (3rd L bottom) look on before they leave the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka November 19, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo

Sri Lanka clan returns as Rajapaksa scion runs for president

A scion of Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa family, Namal Rajapaksa (2R) receives ticket from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party in Colombo on August 7, 2024, to contest the presidential election. Sri Lanka's ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family on August 7 to challenge the incumbent president in September 21 polls, the first since the country's unprecedented economic meltdown. (Photo by AFP)

A radicalised Bangladesh, a ‘Cuba’ in Sri Lanka? Troubling signals from South Asia

That Bangladesh would turn so heavily against its founding father’s daughter and political legatee would have been unthinkable until a few years ago.

Ambulance crisis may have sparked first debate of Sri Lanka’s presidential election season

TOPSHOT - A street vendor sells prawns at the Galle Face sea-front promenade in Colombo on March 15, 2024. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Sri Lanka seeks stolen artefacts on anniversary of ex-president’s ouster

Sri Lankan protestors taking over the Presidential palace after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country.

Ousted Sri Lankan president quizzed over cash stash

The hidden cash stockpile was uncovered when protesters stormed ousted Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's former residence last year.

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