Fly over Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka’s misty highland retreat, where rolling tea estates, colonial mansions, and fog-covered ...

Sri Lanka's leftist government asked former presidents, including the once-powerful Rajapaksa brothers, on Jan. 21 to immediately vacate luxury government bungalows as part of a new austerity drive.

Sri Lanka's parliament voted on Wednesday to evict former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and two others from state-owned mansions under austerity measures introduced by the new leftist government.