COLOMBO (Reuters) - The brother of Sri Lanka's president and the country's former finance minister, Basil Rajapaksa, said on Thursday he had resigned from parliament, the second from the influential ...

COLOMBO, (ANI) – The Sri Lankan Supreme Court has issued an interim order that prevented former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa from leaving the country ...

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has extended a travel ban imposed on former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, ex-minister Basil Rajapaksa, until Aug. 4 as they were named respondents in a case ...

Basil is likely to be sworn in as an MP on July 6 after MP Ranjith Bandara resigns, for him to take the seat Economist Ranjith Bandara is tipped to be appointed in a high position at the Central Bank ...

(Bloomberg) -- A scion of the powerful Rajapaksa clan is running for Sri Lankan president in elections next month, more than two years after his populist uncle led the country to its worst economic ...

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court issued Tuesday a symbolic ruling that the powerful Rajapaksa brothers -- including two ex-presidents -- were guilty of triggering the island's worst financial crisis by ...