Addressing the Head of State Session of the 3rd Voice of Global South Summit virtually, President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the importance of strengthening economic cooperation and regional integration from Japan to India, with a special focus on deepening ties with India.

A future National People's Power (NPP) government will remove the VAT on medicines, school items and food items through its first budget, NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday (17).

The surplus waters of the Nilwala movement will be diverted to the dry zone, said Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa.

An online campaign finance observation tool has been introduced for the first time to observe the campaign expenditures of candidates at the presidential polls.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (17) dared both Sajith Premadasa and Anura Kumara Dissanayake to reveal as to where they had been hiding

The government has decided to introduce a code of ethics for the officers of the Sri Lanka Excise Department (SLED) with the aim of reducing fraud and corruption and increasing excise revenue.

The SLPP’s Matara district MP Karunadasa Kodithuwakku has decided to support SJB presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa.

Exceeding the campaign expenditure limit will result in even the president-elect losing the position, warned election commissioner general Saman Sri Ratnayake yesterday (16).

All family members of late Minister Mangala Samaraweera have decided back me, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today (17).

The NPP wants to see a new transformation in the energy sector as well as all other spheres, said its presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake.