Rajapaksa attempted coup after losing polls, says new Sri Lankan govt

Mahinda Rajapaksa conceded defeat to Maithripala Sirisena in the Sri Lankan presidential polls on Friday. Photograph:  Narendra Shrestha/Getty Images Sri Lanka's new government on......

View: Nasty turn of events in Sri Lanka

The fallout of the spat between two headstrong and powerful personalities like Mahinda Rajapakse and Sarath Fonseka does not augur well for this small and beautiful Island nation struggling to......

'Prabhakaran agrees to civilian rescue'

Beleaguered Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has apparently agreed to a rescue mission by a "western country" to evacuate Tamil civilians trapped in war zone in Sri......

Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, LTTE's nemesis

'I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people. We being the majority of the country (75 per cent), we will......