Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) Priyantha Weerasooriya, currently in charge of the North Central Province, is expected to be appointed as the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) today. This comes after the suspension of IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon.

Talks are underway between Ranil Wickremesinghe, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Sajith Premadasa to contest the upcoming general election via a common alliance, 'Divaina' reported.

Several changes were made to the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and the alliance led by it by opposition leader Sajith Premadasa today (27).

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has met with a group of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) representatives for talks this afternoon, it is learnt.

One human skull was unearthed on the first day of excavations at a gravesite at the Colombo port as the second stage of the work resumed yesterday (26).

Leader of the UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe chaired a meeting at his political office at Flower Road in Colombo yesterday (26) to discuss forming a common opposition alliance to contest parliamentary polls.

Two electoral organizers of the UNP have joined the SJB with a call for unity for the victory of right-wing politics.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has directed the Treasury to implement two key subsidies aimed at providing relief to paddy farmers and fishermen, starting from 1 October, the President’s Media Division (PMD) announced yesterday (26).

The government has taken action to resume the issuing of visas under the previous system, beginning from 12.00 midnight yesterday (26).

Business leader Hanif Yusuf, recently appointed as the Governor of the Western Province, stated that he is determined to implement changes as pledged by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.