A decision is said to have been made to portray former Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the Presidential candidate despite him not being able to relinquish his US citizenship in order to keep the excitement and activities up of the racial forces that have gathered around him, Sinhala weekly Anidda reports.
The power struggle in the United National Party (UNP) is now in the open and it is at the boiling point as candidature for the forthcoming Presidential Elections is at stake.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has called for the replacement of the existing Constitution with a new that ensures the rights of all communities in the country and receives the consensus of every one stating that failure to do so would result in a rejection of the people’s mandate received by the President and government in 2015.
The Kurunegala Magistrate’s Court this evening (25) granted bail to Dr. Mohomad Shafi Siybadeen,
A senior official of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has yesterday informed the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday attacks that there is no evidence to support the allegations leveled against Dr. Mohamed Shafi Siyabdeen, who served in the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.
In a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) while expressing serious distress over the intention to reinstate
The leadership of the Democratic National Front (DNF), which is the new political alliance to be formed by the United National Party (UNP), is to be given to UNP Leader, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, The Leader reliably learns.
The delays that had taken place at the Attorney General’s Department have been blamed by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) as the reason for the delay in arresting National Thowheed Jama'ath (NTJ) Leader Mohammad Zaharan Hashim.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has intervened to cancel a meeting that was to take place between visiting UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Association, Clement Nyaltessoi Voule and judges of Sri Lanka’s High Courts (HC).
The Attorney General (AG) has been ordered by the Permanent High Court at Bar to submit an affidavit before August 9th citing grounds if any for the request made to issue an arrest warrant on former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Arjuna Mahendran.
