Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is said to have informed three Ministers separately to prepare themselves to contest as the United National Front's (UNF) presidential candidate, The Leader reliably learns.

The validity of the findings of the committee appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena to probe the Easter Sunday attacks is now in doubt due to the legal concerns over the appointment of the committee in the first place.

Students in Sri Lanka's education system are being ridiculed and are facing 'punishment' for using stationary produced by a firm caught in an anti-Muslim boycott, an official said.

Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has warned the Acting Chief of Police against arbitrary and illegal arrests being carried out by the Police following the April 21 attacks.

The Colombo District Court complex is in a severely dilapidated state and is on the verge of collapse in some areas.

Re-enforcing the death penalty on judgments given by the judiciary is a power vested with the executive, says President Maithripala Sirisena.

President Maithripala Sirisena has questioned those who have not supported the eradication of the drug menace but now are slamming his decision to reintroduce the death penalty.

Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera says Sajith Premadasa should be presented as the United National Party’s candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections.

Sri Lanka’s Centre for Human Rights has called for the President’s powers to implement the death penalty to be removed.

President Maithripala Sirisena is avoiding meeting members of the foreign diplomatic corp in the country following his announcement on re-imposing the death penalty.