Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is set to return home at the end of this month, is to be named to parliament on the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) national list.

In the run-up to the UN Human Rights Council meets in September, the government has repealed anti-LGBT+ laws found in the Emergency legislation.

Government is to take stringent legal action against corrupt officials and interested individuals for trying hard to sabotage the present fuel procurement process to push the country into difficulties even by going to the extent of spreading false information and carrying out disruptive activities.

A top UN report has found Sri Lanka has failed to abolish slavery it’s found to be widespread from the plantation sector to the workers in the garment industry and those poverty-stricken working as housekeepers and maids, particularly in the war-affected areas.

Exacting revenge by grave proportions targets the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna‘s (SLPP) reformist group led by Dullas Alahapperuma, political sources say.

Leading health sector trade unionist Ravi Kumudesh says the drug mafia gets upset over moves to encourage the local production of pharmaceutical drugs.

One of the groups at the Galle Face protests, Black Cap Movement, says it vehemently opposes granting a cabinet position to Namal Rajapaksa in a future all-party government.

The Vanni is currently staging a major protest demanding solutions to a shortage of kerosene oil and other problems faced by its fisher community.

A young British woman, Kayleigh Fraser, has been unaccounted for since her visa was cancelled on August 15, says the Department of Immigration and Emigration.

A return by former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to Sri Lanka is yet to be confirmed, his private secretary Sugiswara Bandara has told Neth News.