Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home on Saturday, according to reports, citing senior defense officials. 

Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about $2.9 billion.

A Chinese research vessel departed from Sri Lanka's Hambantota port on Monday after six days marked by tensions between India and China.

Sri Lanka will not extend a state of emergency imposed to control anti-government protests as the situation in the impoverished nation has "stabilised".

Two activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled Sri Lanka’s president have been arrested, police said, as the parliament has extended tough emergency laws imposed to restore order.

A rights group documenting alleged abuses in Sri Lanka is seeking the arrest of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over his role in the Asian nation’s decades-long civil war.

Sri Lankan police and security forces on Friday cleared the main protest site in the capital Colombo occupied by demonstrators for months,