The Supreme Court has determined that the 19th Amendment is consistent with the constitution and that, however, certain sections require a referendum, Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa informed Parliament today.

Sri Lanka has opened the first electric car charging centre in Tickel Road in the island’s capital Colombo as part of a strategy to make 10 percent of all vehicles on the road driven by electricity.

Kalutara District MP Kumara Welgama yesterday said that Opposition would topple the government by bringing a no-faith motion in Parliament if it did not resign over the previous day’s defeat of the financial bill.

Winning a war or revolution, only to lose the subsequent peace, is one of the grim political truths of our time, says Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe.

Condemning the unparliamentary move to defeat the finance regulation, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake yesterday maintained that the government was not least affected by this but assured to continue with granting the already proposed concessions to the people.

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa told Parliament that he was still studying the submissions made to him about who should hold the post of Opposition Leader.

Mahanayake of the Asgiriya Chapter Most Venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Thera has passed away at a private hospital in Singapore. He was 85.

Consequent to 9/11 the US declared a war on terror and countries were told ‘you are either with us or against us’. The LTTE foreign brains quickly came up with an unregistered alliance putting together Tamil political parties under an umbrella name Tamil National Alliance with representatives selected by LTTE and Prabakaran.

A proposal that was presented in Parliament today to raise the Governments treasury bill debt ceiling by 400 million rupees was defeated.

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila said today they hoped to get former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to participate in the election campaign after the General Election was declared.

JHU General Secretary and Minister for Power and Energy, Champika Ranawaka said the 19th Amendment will only come into effect under a new Parliament and Prime Minster.

ISLAMABAD: In a joint press conference with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the signing of six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the two countries.

Body of the woman that went missing from Kotakethana are in Kahawatta has been found from the Kotakethana canal, the police confirmed a short while ago.

Strict enforcement of laws related to road lanes on five roads in Colombo and suburbs will come into effect from Monday to Friday.

At least five persons were killed and several others injured in two separate accidents in the Puttlam and Marawila area this morning, Police said.

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga stated she was ready to take on her successor, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa if the latter tried to destroy the attempts of the government to rebuild the country.