Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today said that he will contest a second term at the next presidential election.

Attorneys of Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa have requested the court to conclude the case hearing in which the Minister is a defendant, pertaining to financial misappropriation when providing GI pipes to local government institutions during the 2015 Presidential Election period.

A protest was launched this morning in Battaramulla by several teacher and principal trade unions based on a number of demands including salary anomalies.

The Education Ministry has decided to postpone the 2021 GCE Advanced Level examination (A/L) and the Grade 05 Scholarship Examination.

Sri Lanka has received another consignment of over 70,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine this morning.

Parliament will be meeting today and tomorrow to debate the No Confidence Motion (NCM) tabled by the Opposition against Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila.

Sri Lanka Police have discovered Rs. 13.9 Million in cash buried in a house located in Kottawa, Pannipitiya.

A criminal wanted for multiple crimes was gunned down by the Police Special Task Force early morning today (18) on Baseline Road, Seeduwa.

Former MP Duminda Silva, who was serving a death sentence over the killing of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra but was released from jail on a special presidential pardon last month has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Housing Development Authority.

MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is currently in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), has been hospitalized.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the obstacles existed in the University Grants Commission Act will be removed and the Kotelawala Defence University will be brought under its purview.

Sri Lanka Police is making plans to initiate a mechanism to resolve public issues at village level through community police units.

The National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA) yesterday granted approval for the Emergency Use of Sinovac Covid 19 vaccine manufactured in China.

During a search operation carried out by the Kelaniya Police last night, three suspects were arrested in Kelaniya for the possession of 800 kilograms of turmeric that was illegally imported.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna parliamentarian Professor Ranjith Bandara says the public will witness economic management of the present government in the coming days.

Ceylon Teachers Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Frontline Socialist Party Politburo Member Duminda Nagamuwa and several others who were detained in quarantine centres were released yesterday.