Category: Local News

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. […]

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. […]