Category: Local News

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.

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on Monday for parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections to be held after a party backed by him won local council polls in the strongest rebuff yet to the unity government.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa who was away in America is expected to return to Sri Lanka today (12).

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) cruised to a resounding victory at Saturday’s local government elections (LG) by winning 2,901 seats and bagging 222 local government bodies out of 304

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he acknowledges everyone who pledged their support at the 2018 Local Government election.

Official election results of Local Authorities Election – 2018 Sri Lanka

President Maithreepala Sirisena casts his vote in this morning, at the local government election in the poling center at sri vidhyaloka vihara new town,Polonnaruwa.

The speculations surrounding the release of former Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine, Udayanga Weeratunga, by a Dubai Court was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) yesterday (9).