Sri Lanka’s President failed to heed a written warning that he should act to prevent panic over the COVID 19 virus in a high security prison where two inmates were shot dead in a riot triggered by rumours.

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has no intention or the capacity to obtain a two-thirds majority in Parliament, Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Pavithra Wanniarachchi said.

Sri Lanka has been warned that the government’s failure to rein in Buddhist extremist groups enjoying impunity while unleashing violence against minorities, threatens to propel the country into a vicious cycle of ethnic-religious violence.

Failure to take advantage of the decreasing crude oil prices in the world market and pass the benefit to the public by reducing the prices in the domestic market has allowed the Indian Oil Company (IOC) to amass billions of rupees in additional profits.

A tense situation was reported in and around Ananda College in Colombo after the child of the first Sri Lankan to contract the COVID-19 virus was revealed to be a grade 12 student of the aforementioned school. 

Former Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said today that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is currently the Minister of Finance, has the legal responsibility to release to the public a Pre-Election Budgetary Position Report containing information on the fiscal position of the country before March 23, 2020.

Despite being faced with many difficulties throughout its inception as a party and having emerged victorious in all elections since, the founder of the Sri Lanka Podujana

security agencies are stepping up surveillance, harassment, and threats against human rights activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. 

It is reported that Ravi Karunanayake has agreed to hand over the 'swan' symbol along with the approval of the UNP's Working Committee to the Samagi Jana Balawegaya led by Sajith Premadasa.  

In a bid to resolve the dispute between the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and the United National Party (UNP), the General Secretary of the SJB, Ranjith Madduma Bandara has requested former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to assume the leadership of the UNP.