Presidential candidate Premasiri Manage has publicly spoken in support of SJB candidate Sajith Premadasa.
Independent presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe has submitted an acceptable programme instead of mere election promises, said former minister Ravi Karunanayake.
Large infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka, often funded by foreign loans and grants, are legally required to disclose information online when the amount exceeds USD 100,000, Verité Research said.
The claim by a prominent lawmaker of a key Tamil party in the North and East of Sri Lanka to support one of the leading contenders in the presidential race, has been trashed by the party leadership.
The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister has grossly underplayed the numbers of disappeared persons who either surrendered, handed over, abducted, or otherwise went missing during the brutal civil war which ended in a blood bath a decade and half earlier.
The Army has declared all its camps and bungalows out-of-bounds for all retired personnel for a 25-day period from 01 September.
MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage has ruled out ever joining the UNP although he supports Ranil Wickremesinghe at the upcoming presidential polls.
Germany has deported 28 Afghan nationals charged with criminal acts, in the first such move since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has unanimously decided to call for the resignation of BASL President Kaushalya Nawaratne PC.
