Just days before tomorrow’s presidential poll, 78-year old Mahinda Rajapaksa, broke his silence in an exclusive interview with Padma Rao Sundarji for The Times of India, at his residence in Colombo.

The group was crushed in a 2009 government offensive headed by Mr Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa to end the separatist civil war that broke out in 1983 and left at least 100,000 on both sides ...

Namal is the eldest son of Mahinda Rajapaksa, 76, the current president’s brother who previously held the top job from 2005 to 2015. With Gotabaya as his defense minister during that time ...

Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, the Parliament’s speaker, told the BBC in an interview Monday that Rajapaksa was no longer in the country but will return by Wednesday to resign.

Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa is a patient man. Fifty years of politics has taught him to learn that trait; something which he has showcased both in victory and defeat. ..

I asked whether he consulted him (Mahinda Rajapaksa) before fleeing the country. He replied: “He did not tell me.” He added that Gotabaya Rajapaksa should not have gone. When he had decided, he told ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s fall from grace had seemed to end a powerful dynasty, ... As defense secretary when his older brother Mahinda Rajapaksa was president, ... In an interview, he offers a self ...

Interviews with four dozen government officials, party loyalists, opposition leaders, diplomats, ... In 2015, Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated in his bid for a third term.

Interviews with ruling party politicians, ... Mahinda Rajapaksa became the country’s youngest member of Parliament in 1970 at the age of 24, representing the same local seat his father had held.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, 76, is the head of the clan. ... 71, nicknamed "Mr Ten Percent" in a BBC interview in a reference to commissions he allegedly took from government contracts.

Pictured here is former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's official residence in Wijerama Mawatha. According to the Presidents Entitlements Act, every former president or president’s spouse should be ...