Category: Local News

President Maithripala Sirisena says programmes will be implemented in the future to serve the people, together with all the people’s representatives who contested for the Local Government election under the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).

Minister of Science, Technology and Research Susil Premajayantha stated that the majority of the UPFA will not support the continuation of the current unity government.

The President does not have the power to dismiss a Prime Minister according to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardene said yesterday.

Civil Society grouping Purawesi Balaya yesterday called for far reaching Cabinet reshuffle, including the immediate appointment of war winning Army Chief Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka as Law and Order Minister

Following a meeting with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the UNP parliamentary group has decided to continue with the unity government and carry out party reforms, UNP General Secretary Kabir Hashim said.

President Maithripala Sirisena is expected to make a special statement on the future course of National Unity Government tomorrow.

At least four persons were killed while another two were wounded after a building collapsed in Grandpass.

Some Ministers belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) are planning to team up with the United National Party(UNP) to form the new coalition government, while others are trying to align with the opposition.

Efforts to break a deadlock on the political future of Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition continued yesterday, with a second round of late night talks for all UNP Cabinet ministers at President Maithripala Sirisena’s official residence at Paget Road last night.

President Maithripala Sirisena requested United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday (12), to resign as Prime Minister and appoint another person for the post, according to highly placed sources.

China wants to turn the vast Indian Ocean into the China Ocean. When it comes to investment and commerce that is.

When Suresh Pattali of the Khaleej Times flagged down a cab in the mad morning rush to keep a medical appointment, little did he know it would be a journey into the plebeian life of a forgotten national hero.

The United National Party (UNP) backbenchers, who met with party leader Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today, had urged the Premier to form an independent UNP government.

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker has been ordered for deportation next week, despite the United Nations committee against torture requesting Australia not move him while it investigates whether he will be tortured if he is returned against his will.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday (12) said he is not eligible to be the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka because he is a US citizen.

Presidential Media Division sources yesterday said that President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have neither taken any decision nor reached any agreement over governing the Local Government institutions or future political activities of the government.