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Before the Tamil National Alliance's signature collection drive at Galle Face, the police stopped it. The police allowed the signature campaign after MP Sumanthiran assured them there would be no conflict.

Sri Lanka's President's office established a Food Security Program Unit to address rising poverty and hunger following reports of rising malnutrition and students fainting at schools without food amid an economic crisis and sharp depreciation of the rupee currency, making...

Mr Mujibar Rahman, SJB MP, stated that the football federation's operations worth crores have been handed over to the father-in-law of former sports minister Namal Rajapaksa's LSR company, and these projects have been awarded without any tenders. The football federation's...

Sri Lankan equities nudged up on Thursday (22), led by banking shares, which had fallen in three sessions earlier this week due to persistent foreign inflows ahead of the central bank's meeting with the island nation's creditors over debt restructuring,...

Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the dead journalist's daughter, said she will continue to fight for her father. She stated that a People's Tribunal decision has increased her resolve and campaigning. A series of civil society-led hearings concluded this week in The Hague,...

The Supreme Court informed speaker that Petroleum Products Special Provisions Amendment Bill is inconsistent as a whole with the article 12(1) of the Constitution, Speaker announced a shortwhile ago. The Supreme Court has also informed us that inconstancies will cease...

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) today approved request of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to impose 2 hours and 20 minutes until Sunday (25). PUCSL Chairman Janaka Ratnayake said the extended power cut will come to effect...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is failing in all of his attempts to keep power with the Rajapaksas' support, as the people of the north have now united with their southern counterparts in the movement to repeal the draconian law PTA, according...

World record T20 chase, Pakistan becomes the first team in T20 cricket to successfully chase a target of 200 or more runs without losing a wicket. 2nd T20I: Pakistan (203/0 in 19.3 overs) beat England (199/5) by 10 wickets, level...

Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, a member of parliament from the Gampaha District, stated in parliament that voters cannot send corrupt politicians home; only struggle can accomplish this. Mr. Sarath Fonseka stated that the country must be rescued from corrupt politicians...