The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Mahela Jayawardena has called on the government to repeal laws that discriminate against the LGBT people.
A cabinet reshuffle is expected to take place in a couple of weeks, it is learnt.
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has ruled out any involvement by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya in an all-party government, which the media says is likely to be formed within the next fortnight.
A South Africa-based rights group has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore's attorney general, seeking the arrest of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role in Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war, Reuters reported.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reaffirmed Sri Lanka’s commitment to upholding the rights of peaceful, non-violent assembly. The President expressed this stance to the Colombo based Diplomats at a meeting held on Friday (22).
Former Minister Dhammika Perera will decide whether to resign or not from the SLPP National List seat today (25).
Galle Face protestors expelled the Rajapaksa trio from power and paved the way for democracy, enabling MP Ranil Wickremesinghe to become the president, but what he did was to send the military and the police to wage a barbaric attack on those very same protestors, said MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.
Member of Parliament Dinesh Gunawardena has taken oaths as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
State intelligence had received information that Galle Face protestors had been planning to smuggle all state documents out of the Presidential Secretariat by this afternoon (22), Defence Ministry sources say.
