A total of 29,589 dengue cases and 15 deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka as of May 18 this year, the National Dengue ...

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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a retired lieutenant colonel, nicknamed the "Terminator" by his own family, won 53-54 percent of the vote ...

The country is in deepening turmoil over the theft of USD 2.5 mn from the Treasury. The Treasury affair has placed the arrogant NPP in an embarrassing position. The controversial release of 323 ...

If all hadn’t been overturned – delivering an unrecognizable landscape five years ago – it is quite likely that I would have made a phone call early this morning. And when answered, I would have said, ...

In a moving tribute to the late Mangala Samaraweera on what would have been his 70th birthday, reflecting on a man who was both “aging and ageless.” Mangala was a rare political creature -a pragmatist ...

Mangala Samaraweera passed away in 2021. Had he lived, he would be 70 on 21 April. What is the measure of a politician? What people say at the funeral and in eulogies that only highlight positives? It ...

The Central Committee of the SLFP met in the President’s House on July 28, 2005 to select its nominee for the Presidential election to be held in December 2005. It was unanimously decided that the ...

We received a signal from Mangala (Samaraweera) that the time was opportune for us to make a move (out of the UNP). Accordingly a minibus was arranged to take us from Elle Gunawansa’s temple to Temple ...

The “Lion of Ruhunu” waves to supporters, a familiar gesture from a political career spanning over five decades, from his first parliamentary victory in 1970 to the present day Sri Lanka’s fifth ...

Police have arrested the suspect involved in the shooting targeting the private secretary of former Minister Mangala Samaraweera on July 3. The suspect was allegedly found in possession of the ...

Colombo, July 23 (Daily Mirror) - A Fundamental Rights petition filed by several women activists and women’s organizations was settled before the Supreme Court following the issuance of a new gazette ...