Category: Local News

The new government at its first meeting held yesterday approved a vote on account submitted by finance and media minister Mangala Samaraweera to cover state expenditure for the first four months of year 2019

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said they would continue their political struggle unabated until they establish a government.

Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena named a 30-member cabinet Thursday to end a crippling seven-week power struggle with his prime minister, but only after a final tussle over who should control the police.

A person has been arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) in Kilinochchi while transporting Kerala Cannabis worth Rs 23 million.

UPFA MP Ranjith Zoysa and three others were remanded till January 1 in connection with an assault on a person on December 16 in Godakawela, Police said.

Newly appointed Minister of Finance and Mass Media, Mangala Samaraweera, says that the current government will be reintroducing the fuel price formula.

A new Cabinet ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, a short while ago.

President Maithripala Sirisena is expected to swear in 28 members of the Cabinet today, government sources said yesterday.

The appointment of the Cabinet, scheduled for this morning, is in the balance as the UNF and President Maithripala Sirisena have not reached an agreement on the law and order and media portfolios, according to political sources.

A group of UNP MPs plan to oppose a potential move by its high-ups to appoint Wasantha Senanayake as a Cabinet Minister.

UNF sources stated that the names of prospective members of the cabinet will be sent to the president this afternoon.

Making a special statement in parliament, R. Sampanthan says that there are two opposition leaders as Speaker has not removed him from the position.

The Crimes Investigation Department has uncovered several deleted conversations in Namal Kumara’s phone through Hong Kong analysis.

The President is able to call for a presidential election at any time after the 09th of January 2019, said Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya.

The JVP says even if the UNP were to form a broad political force, the JVP will never join or engage in politics with the UNP or Mahinda Rajapaksa under any circumstance.

General Secretary of the UNP, former Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam yesterday said the UNF under no circumstances, would give the Ministries of Law and Order and the Media and Information to President Maithripala Sirisena.