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In his first 'Ranaviru Day' message after being elected to office, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said the greatest tribute to war h…

UN diplomats will vote on new Security Council members in person despite the coronavirus pandemic Johannes (AFP)  UNITED NATI…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has surrendered his three-month salary of Rs. 292,500 to the COVID-19 Healthcare and Social Security …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested the banking sector to deviate from conventional thinking and practice to support the co…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today reviewed the current status of the proposed “unique digital identity card”, which will be i…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the officials to focus on rapid development of several main cities in the country incl…

Seven Fundamental Right petitions filed challenging the dissolution of Parliament and fixing the General Election date for June 20…

Former MPs Kumara Welgama and Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) Leader Patali Champika Ranawaka filed a petition in the Supreme Court tod…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is optimistic that the economy adversely affected by the COVID – 19 pandemic could be re-built on a…

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…