JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is attacking Central Bank governor Nandalal Weeerasinghe to show his preparedness to sabotage Sri Lanka’s talks with the IMF that begin in Washington in 48 hours’ time, said community affairs director general to the president Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon.
Leaders of minority parties are being deceived into proposing alliances, alleges SJB general secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara.
The Election Commission is due to meet on April 11 to take a final decision on the local government polls.
A number of names are coming up as possible candidates for the next presidential election.
The SLPP has risen up from the ashes like the Greek mythical bird phoenix, said its MP Sanjeewa Edirimanne.
China has proposed setting up a radar base in Sri Lanka, aiming to counter India's naval presence and strategic oversight in the Indian Ocean region, a report has claimed.
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa is coming under pressure from a number of SJB MPs to annul the party membership of Kalutara district MP Dr. Rajitha Senaratne.
The remains of well-known professor emerita of pediatrics Priyani Soyza will be kept at A.F. Raymonds in Borella from today (09).
Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will be a non-party candidate at the presidential polls due in 2024, with the intention of forming a government of national consensus, said former finance minister Ravi Karunanayake.
A team of veterans involved in evaluating the damage caused from the X-Press Pearl marine disaster allege they were not allowed at least to go near the sunken ship in the course of their evaluation.
