Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday addressed newspaper editors and other media personnel at the Hilton Residencies.

Sri Lanka’s new administration has been billed over half a million rupees for washing clothes of the Prime Minister of the ousted Rajapaksa regime during the last quarter of 2014, Deputy Economic Policy Minister Harsha de Silva said.

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that none of the two major political parties can get a majority in Parliament at the general election, but the JVP will not ally with either party to form a government.

Former Sports Minister and UPFA Kandy District Candidate Mahindananda Aluthgamage said that despite the big hue and cry made by the government to bring crooks to book as early as possible, the government over the past six months has failed to find anybody guilty over the alleged financial frauds and other charges levelled against some UPFA politicians.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, once poised to be Sri Lanka’s president for life, is a desperate man these days. At stake is not just his own political future, but that of an entire dynasty and a network of supporters he founded at every level.

The United States has issued a security message to its citizens living or traveling in Sri Lanka, in view of the forthcoming parliamentary polls in the island.

The CID yesterday took into custody two former LTTE cadres for questioning over the disappearance of senior journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda who went missing since 2010.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has no personal motives,but, only social motives, said former MP Sunil Handunnetti.

Chandrika Kumaratunga will never support the Sri Lanka Freedom Party as long as there are corrupt and unwanted people in it, said Minister of Ports Shipping and Aviation Arjuna Ranatunga.

Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has vowed to win an outright majority in parliamentary elections due on 17 August.

Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has vowed to win an outright majority in parliamentary elections due on 17 August.

Deputy Women’s Affairs Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran while insisting that her vehicle did not carry a poster exhibiting the Tamil Eelam map yesterday said that she has never supported the call for Tamil Eelam.

The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Thursday as a state-run bank, through which the central bank usually directs the market, raised the currency’s peg against the dollar by 25 cents to let the exchange rate depreciate to 133.75, dealers said.

The Director General of Health Services, Dr. Palitha Mahipala stated that the Sri Lankan instant noodles is safe for the human consumption which was declared as not safe early.