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"Please, as demanded by the people of this country, resign and give them the opportunity to elect a new government."
"This is a democratic country. Do these protesters lose their freedom after giving a letter to the speaker?"
Following a statement by JVP leader
“We will take legal action as some of [the allegations] are already being investigated and some cases are ongoing."
"I think everyone who holds dual citizenship should resign now with their dignity intact."
Acknowledging the need to conduct thorough investigations into any alleged offence, a collective of academics, lawyers, ...
Constitutional experts are saying that because the President is accountable to Parliament it is vital that the House be ...
The Constitutional Council is to meet tomorrow at the residence of former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to primarily discuss t...
A man who allegedly assaulted a police officer at the Wariyapola Police Station on Sunday 19 April has been remanded, po...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his country will "not rest" in bringing to justice those involved in Easter Sunda...
A date for the upcoming parliamentary elections must be announced only after the last COVID-19 patient has officially re...
Sajith Premadasa is saying that the Director-General of Health Services must issue a public guarantee that it will be sa...
Noting that he has no power to convene parliament in the absence of an election after June 2, President Gotabaya Rajapas...
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269...
Sri Lanka’s COVID-hit Parliamentary General Election is to be held on June 20, an official statement issued by the Inf...
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A group of renowned educators and school administrators is urging the government to refrain from re-opening schools on M...
The government and the National Election Commission (NEC) must take full responsibility for any increase in COVID-19 rel...
An Army of volunteers and donors from Sri Lanka and overseas are helping the needy, mainly daily wage earners, in all pa...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has called on the country's Elections Commission to fix a new date, after t...
Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is warning the government that creating a constitutional crisis at this time would danger...
Former MP Eran Wickramaratne is saying that the government has started suppressing criticism about the shortcomings in t...
Sex-workers, homeless and migrant workers without a fixed abode are increasingly at risk of contracting COVID 19 and are...
Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church is ready to “spiritually forgive” the plotters and the perpetrators of last year...
Sri Lanka’s leading Roman Catholic Prelate says pogroms against Muslims three weeks after the 2019 Easter Sunday suici...
Now is not the time for elections in Sri Lanka, given the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said.
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