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Former Speaker of Parliament, Karu Jayasuriya, said today that he endorsed the proposal made by the parties in the opposition to r…

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has called all 225 members of the previous Parliament for a meeting on Monday (May 4) at 10 am to…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said the spread of COVID-19 is under control in general, and that immediate remedial steps have been …

South Korea said today it knows Kim Jong Un’s location as it continues to play down rumours that the North’s strongman leader …

While assuring that he would not leave any room for any form of extremism, or violence from any extremists to be unleashed again, …

he National Elections Commission has decided to hold the General Election on June 20th, a Commission’s official said.The Extraor…

The possibility of immediate resumption of day-to-day economic activities at provincial levels in order to safeguard the national …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa today requested the employers to pay attenti…

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday urged the government not to politicize the distribution of essentia…

The meeting scheduled to be held yesterday between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and a group of UNP MPs has been postponed to tomor…

No new COVID-19 positive cases were reported in Sri Lanka within the day as at 4.30 p.m., Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi s…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed the legal experts and the Department of Prisons to look into ways of granting some relie…

The Government today requested the public to strictly adhere to the social distancing policy of one metre at public places. In a s…

The entire country should come together and support all transparent quarantine activities, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Leader Saj…

The government should not act like Nero, who played the fiddle when Rome was burning or beat about the bush but should announce a …

As the government declared yesterday a public holiday with a view of preventing the spread of coronavirus across the country, many…

Addressing the nation tonight President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is to deliver a statement on the prevailing pandemic situation in the c…

Our biggest challenge is to minimise the virus entering SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday proposed to leaders of South Asi…

A young Green politico who has made Uva his political base is said to be planning to say adieu to his familiar electorate. He had …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said all necessary steps had been taken to contain the…

The Coronavirus has no relevance to the general election as preventing the further spread of the disease is the most important mat…

Several UNP members including party deputy leader Sajith Premadasa boycotted its Working Committee meeting held yesterday. Sajith …

The UNP working committee will meet today to discuss and decide on Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa's extension to Party Leader …

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa; Stefan Abeyesinhe -Executive Director, Asia Capital PLC; Hiroshi Yasuno - General Manager-Bellun…

It is those in the present government who originally internationalised the human rights issues in Sri Lanka by signing a joint agr…