Category: Local News

SLFP National Organiser and former Minister Basil Rajapaksa resigned from the post of SLFP National Organiser on Thursday, January 15 after accepting full responsibility for the defeat of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Election held on January 8.   Basil Rajapksa led the UPFA Presidential Election campaign. […]

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has agreed to hand over the Chairmanship of the SLFP to President Maithripala Sirisena, SLFP sources told Media. The Central Committee of the SLFP is sheduled to meet today at 4pm to ratify the appointment of President Sirisena as Chairman. […]

Pope Francis met former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, former First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa at Vatican Embassy. […]

Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka is to be restored with his titles, medals, pension and civic rights which he was deprived of in 2010, after being convicted of alleged irregularities in military procurements and sentenced to three years in prison. […]

National Freedom Front (NFF) Spokesman, Mohammed Muzammil said the NFF will support President Sirisena in his 100-day plan, scheduled to be implemented immediately after the 2015 Presidential Elections. […]

Notorious underworld kingpin and drug trafficker, Samantha Kumara alias Wele Suda has been arrested in Pakistan and brought to Sri Lanka, Police said a short while ago. Police on July 1, 2014 arrested the wife and mother-in-law of Wele Suda. […]

United National Party Member of the Uva Provincial Council, Harin Fernando was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of the Uva Provincial Council a short while ago. […]

Pope Francis will give Sri Lanka its first Catholic saint on Wednesday, ending a 300-year campaign to recognise the sanctity of an Indian-born missionary who was captured as a suspected spy after he crept into the tropical island in disguise. […]

The Minuwangoda Magistrate yesterday remanded till January 20 Divulapitiya Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Indika Anuruddha and two other suspects after they surrendered to the court. […]

A two-seater aircraft was found at the Narahenpita Economic Centre following a tip off received to the 119 call centre, police said. […]

Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said that penalizing offenders does not amount to taking political revenge. As an example, if Shirani Bandaranaike had been ousted unconstitutionally and if the appointment of Mohan Peiris has not been done constitutionally, rectifying this issue is not taking political revenge. […]

General Ban Ki-moon discussed Sri Lanka’s post-war agenda with newly- elected President Maithripala Sirisena who recorded a stunning victory in the bitterly-contested presidential election that ended the 10-year rule of Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

The special aircraft carrying Pope Francis and the Papal delegation touched down at the Bandaranaike International Airport at 9.00 a.m. this morning. […]

Pope Francis will arrive in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, days after the surprise election of a president who has pledged a new culture of tolerance in a country still recovering from civil war. […]

President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed 27 Cabinet Ministers, ten State ministers and eight Deputy Ministers at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, where the parliamentarians took oath. […]

Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) Sarath Fonseka says that former LTTE leaders such as Kumaran Pathmanathan and Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan would have to face legal action as they were once “hardcore terrorist” and that a probe will be launched into the whereabouts of seized LTTE assets. […]