Basil explains ‘election results’ to Ranil!
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLPP founder Basil Rajapaksa met recently for talks on upcoming elections.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLPP founder Basil Rajapaksa met recently for talks on upcoming elections.
The VOICE referendum which will be held on the 14th of October, is being unnecessarily politicized and wantonly turned into a divisive one.
Sri Lanka is yet to meet eight key commitments it has made to the IMF, including reforms in loss-making state entities, said senior research analyst at Verite Research Sureni Weeratunga.
Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will not contest the next presidential polls as he is without any public support and was appointed to the position on the strength of the SLPP MPs, said SJB MP S.M. Marikkar.
An ASP attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been transferred on allegations of having aided the underworld leader and drug trafficker Nadun Chinthaka alias ‘Harak Kata’.
Parliament has a new deputy secretary general and chief of staff in lawyer Chaminda Kularatne.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed retired Supreme Court judge S.I. Imam to head a committee to investigate the allegations made by UK’s Channel-4 with regard to the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
Former President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (15) asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the charges made against him through the fundamental rights petitions in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks.
Eight days of excavations have yielded the skeletal remains of 14 persons at a suspected mass grave at Kokkutuduvai in Mullaitivu.
Stressing the need to conduct an independent inquiry on the Easter Sunday attacks, opposition lawmaker Eran Wickramaratne called on the government to stop making counter-accusations against the Channel 4 broadcast which aired the names of the people and politicians said to be involved in the Easter attack and immediately conduct an independent investigation to find out the truth without covering up the half-truths known to the people of this country.