The district-level voter turnout percentages for the 2024 Presidential Election at the close of polls at 04.00 pm today have been released.
The presidential candidates cast their votes this morning in the 2024 presidential election.
A curfew will be imposed if the need arises and it will be enforced strictly if violence erupts, Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles told journalists today (21).
Dan Priyasad, who arrived at the Katunayake Airport to leave for Dubai, was turned back by the officials of the Katunayake Airport Immigration Department last night due to a travel ban imposed on him.
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border.
War-affected Tamils from the North and East of Sri Lanka have rejected the soft-pedalling draft resolution of the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on Sri Lanka with regard to Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability, and Human Rights in Sri Lanka.
Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed more than 300 people at the American embassy and a U.S. Marines barracks.
The supply of electricity and all related services as well as the supply or distribution of petroleum products and fuel have been declared as essential services.
Voting is now underway at 13,421 polling stations across the island to elect Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president.
Former Finance Ministry Secretary Dr. R. H. S. Samaratunga yesterday (20) said Sri Lanka’s successful exit from bankruptcy, achieved through debt restructuring within a brief span of two and a half years following an unprecedented economic crisis, serves as a model for other nations experiencing similar challenges.
