Category: Local News

Washington pledged Monday to work with Sri Lanka’s newly-elected government to help improve human rights and democracy, voicing hope the election will mark the start of a new chapter in ties. […]

More Parliamentarians of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) including some ministers and deputy ministers today defected and pledged to support President Maithripala Sirisena. […]

Uva Provincial Council Minister Senthil Thondaman, who was charged with assaulting a postman, has surrendered to the Bandarawela Magistrate’s Court today. […]

Former Economic Development Minister and brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa and his his wife Pushpa Rajapaksa arriving in the US. […]

Rejecting reports that he had fled the country, former arms chief procurer of the LTTE Selvaraja Pathmanathan alias KP said that he did not intend to leave the country. […]

Diplomat, journalist and political activist Karunarathna Paranavithana has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information. […]

Sri Lanka’s new government promised a tolerant new era of religious harmony and political freedom for the Indian Ocean island nation after years of mounting repression under the decade-old regime defeated in an election on Friday. […]

A group of over 20 Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MPs including several former ministers have pledged their support to President Maithripala Sirisena. […]

Newly-elected President Maithripala Sirisena today invited all political parties in parliament to unite in forming a national unity government. […]

Somarathna Dissanayeka who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) assumed duties last evening. […]

President Maithripala Sirisena will travel to New Delhi next month on his first State visit abroad. […]

Former Economic Development Minister and National Organizer of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Basil Rajapaksa has left for Dubai early this morning. […]

Sri Lanka’s army defied orders from aides of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa to keep him in power “by force” when it became clear he had lost his bid for a third term, an ally of the newly elected leader said on Saturday. […]

Former Environment and Sustainable Ministry Secretary B.M.U.D. Basnayake was appointed as new Secretary of Defense, MP Rajitha Senarathene said. […]

Former Secretary of the Public Administration and Home Affairs Ministry, P.B. Abeykoon, today assumed duties as the Secretary to newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena. […]

David Cameron congratulated the newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena. The Prime Minister said: […]