The faction led by Nimal Siripala de Silva has decided to boycott a meeting convened by Thilanga Sumathipala to resolve the internal crisis in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
Prof. Channa Jayasumana was elected chair of the forum of MPs, who are doctors by profession, at a meeting yesterday (25).
Vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party’s international department Sun Haiyan has met with SLPP national organizer Namal Rajapaksa.
A powerful politician in the south has swindled nearly Rs. 25 million from 500 youths with a promise of sending them for employment in Korea’s agricultural sector.
A fresh campaign that is ongoing for one month now has failed to secure a demand that the Tamil-majority Kalmunai North in Ampara be upgraded to a fully-powered divisional secretariat.
Former President Maithripala Sirisena has sent a letter of demand to Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, seeking Rs. 1 billion in damages over defamation.
More than 1,500 families in Jaffna remain displaced by war even 15 years after it ended, it has come to light.
Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday (24) said in Parliament that he would do his utmost to find out the masterminds behind the Easter Sunday attacks.
The SLPP will announce its presidential candidate only after incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe makes his decision official, said the party’s founder Basil Rajapaksa.
Although Sri Lanka is said to be the pearl of the Indian Ocean, it has actually become a transshipment centre for narcotics, said SJB MP Eran Wickramaratne.
