A fresh campaign that is ongoing for one month now has failed to secure a demand that the Tamil-majority Kalmunai North in Ampara be upgraded to a fully-powered divisional secretariat.

Former President Maithripala Sirisena has sent a letter of demand to Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, seeking Rs. 1 billion in damages over defamation.

More than 1,500 families in Jaffna remain displaced by war even 15 years after it ended, it has come to light.

Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday (24) said in Parliament that he would do his utmost to find out the masterminds behind the Easter Sunday attacks.

The SLPP will announce its presidential candidate only after incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe makes his decision official, said the party’s founder Basil Rajapaksa.

Although Sri Lanka is said to be the pearl of the Indian Ocean, it has actually become a transshipment centre for narcotics, said SJB MP Eran Wickramaratne.

The “Uma Diya Janani” multipurpose development project, marked as a significant irrigation initiative following the Mahaweli movement, was officially handed over to the public this morning (24) by the Presidents of Iran and Sri Lanka.

The interim injunction order preventing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s (SLFP) Executive Committee from removing Duminda Dissanayake, Lasantha Alagiyawanna and Mahinda Amaraweera from their respective positions in the party, has been extended until April 24.

The Colombo District Court has delivered a permanent injunction preventing former President Maithripala Sirisena from functioning as the chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).

The Government has unveiled a comprehensive national digital economy strategy for Sri Lanka titled “Digital Sri Lanka 2030” along with an implementation plan with a view of transforming the island nation's outdated and archaic public administration, and financial management procedures.