Category: Local News

UNP has decided to remove State Minister Wasantha Senanayake from the party, Party General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today.

Sri Lanka will accept a $480 million dollar grant from the US to improve infrastructure and traffic management, officials said Tuesday, after president Maithripala Sirisena withdrew his opposition.

The Election Commission has informed the police to conduct random search patrols covering all divisions to remove political stickers pasted on private vehicles including private buses and three wheelers.

A discussion between the Industry and Commerce ministry secretary and LP Gas companies was held with regard to the prevailing domestic gas shortage this morning.

Do the people of this country aspire to defeat the Ranil Wickremesinghe government and bring back the government they defeated in 2015. If it is so they should not have defeated that old administration at all.

SLPP Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, campaigning in Vavuniya, yesterday, urged the Tamils to repose their faith in him. They should be not be cheated by politicians unlike in the past, he said stressing that he was focusing on doing his utmost for the welfare of the people.

All countries in Asia are now at a developed stage and this is due to the use of technology and intelligence, according to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday expressed his happiness on the great blow which the ISIS suffered with the killing of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

President’s Office categorically refutes baseless and inaccurate allegations made by JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath that Rs. 8000 million had been allocated for the personal use of the President in the future.

The Election Manifesto of the New Democratic Front’s Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa, will be unveiled at 9am on Thursday in Kandy.

Election monitors, yesterday, urged the Elections Commission (EC) to reconsider the deployment of members of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) for election duty as the organisation had consistently shown that they were biased towards a particular political party.

“We, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), have supported Sajith Premedasa as the Presidential candidate for New Democratic Front and United National Party,” Water Supply, City Planning and Higher Education Minister and SLMC Leader Rauff Hakeem told a political rally in Kattankudy on Saturday.

Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera says the public should be a part of Presidential candidate of the New Democratic Front Minister Sajith Premadasa’s victory in order to further strengthen development initiatives carried out by the good governance government.

Over 200 electoral organisers of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) met for a seminar in Colombo on Friday (25) chaired by senior party MP Kumar Welgama, to agree on a program to defeat the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at the presidential election.

National People’s Movement (NPM) Presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake today revealing his manifesto said he will ensure democracy, national unity and eliminate corruption.

JVP propaganda secretary Vijitha Herath said yesterday (25) they were hopeful of several candidates contesting the upcoming presidential election extending their support to the National Peoples Power (NPP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake.