Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is currently staying in Singapore, has been informed to leave the country within 15 days.  Foreign media reports that Singapore is currently facing a problem in providing security to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The former… Read More

Acting President Ranil Wickramasinghe has been elected as the successor president in today’s parliamentary polls. Accordingly, the number of votes obtained by them are as follows.Ranil Wickramasinghe – 134Dallas Alahapperuma – 82Anura Dissanayake – 03

Janaka Ratnayake, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, said that the electricity tariffs will be increased from the beginning of next month (August) and the existing electricity tariff is likely to increase by about 69% accordingly. At a press conference… Read More

Ceylon Private Bus Owners’ Association says that the private bus service has been disrupted even today. Its chairman Mr. Gemunu Wijeratne stated that the release of fuel for his buses has not been done properly so far. He also stated… Read More

The postal department says that the acceptance of foreign postal items, which had been suspended for several countries, will resume from today (20).  Postmaster General Mr Ranjith Ariyaratne mentioned that Israel will start accepting postal items for the Netherlands and… Read More

Litro Company says that 5 lack gas cylinders have been distributed so far. Its chairman, Mr. Muditha Peiris, mentioned that it is planned to distribute 60,000 gas cylinders to areas outside Colombo today. Sri Lanka faces a huge shortage of… Read More

Parliamentary officials have gone to the hospital to collect the vote of MP Saman Priya Herath.  The speaker informed that the member of parliament was sick and had to go to the hospital to collect his vote.  Since there was… Read More

12 people have been identified who threatened and influenced the members of Parliament during the voting for electing a President in the Parliament today. The Criminal Investigation Department states that they have pressured and threatened these parliamentarians through social networks.… Read More

The parliamentary poll to elect the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka will be held today. The 225 members of parliament are going to vote for this. After the resignation of Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa from his position, a successor president… Read More

The LTTE diaspora has requested the international community to immediately remove the Sri Lankan national flag if there is to be peace in Sri Lanka. LTTE diaspora has further informed that all the atrocities against the Dravidian people were done… Read More