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Prespoll2019: First shots fired in anger

Police are investigating after bodyguards escorting Parliamentarian S B Dissanayake opened fire at a group trying to obs...

November 7, 2019 1 min read

Gota will suspend agreements signed during campaign - SLPP

Once in power, Gotabaya Rajapaksa will suspend the agreements signed by the present Government if those agreements are s...

November 6, 2019 2 min read

Hunger strike against the signing of MCC agreement called off

The hunger strike carried out against signing of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement has been called off.

November 6, 2019 1 min read

NDF has decided to boycott Hiru-Marikkar

UNF Parliamentarian S.M. Marikkar said that NDF has decided to boycott the political programs and advertisements to Hiru...

November 6, 2019 1 min read
Gota will win by 10 per cent margin – Basil

The SLPP expressed its confidence today that candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa will win the upcoming presidential election by...

Campaigning to end midnight today; final rallies of main candidates in Colombo suburbs

Propaganda activities for the presidential election to be held on Saturday (16) will come to an end at 12.00 midnight to...

SLPP faults State media for 'distorting' Gota’s statement

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today (16) accused the state media of distorting Gotabaya Rajapaksa's statements.

October 16, 2019 2 min read

Gota and Mahinda betrayed soldiers on war crime by denying leading the war-Harshana

UNP Parliamentarian Harshana Rajakaruna says although the Rajapaksa brothers Gotabaya and Mahinda are ready to take the ...

October 16, 2019 1 min read

Presidential poll results will be delayed - Deshapriya

The cumbersome task of counting outsized ballots will delay the final announcement of the results of the forthcoming Pre...

October 16, 2019 2 min read

PAFFREL to monitor social media for election violations

Executive Director of People’s Action for Free and Fair Election (PAFFREL) Rohana Hettiarachchi said that they have se...

October 16, 2019 1 min read

Gota meets the press; high in confidence, short on candour

In his first-ever press conference, amid increasingly embarrassing allegations of evading the media, presidential hopefu...

Himal Kotelawala
October 15, 2019 10 min read

Dismissal of Petition no bar on Police probe into Gotabaya's citizenship

The dismissal of the Petition challenging the citizenship status of Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa does not b...

October 15, 2019 2 min read

Politicians remain cynical about killing the messenger

Gotabaya Rajapaksa at his first Press Conference as a Presidential Candidate was asked whether the White Van culture tha...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 15, 2019 3 min read

SLFP breakaway group sponsored by UNP -Dayasiri

The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Dayasiri Jayasekara said the so-called Organisation to prote...

October 15, 2019 2 min read

Candidate Monk complains to CaFFE over fake FB post

Presidential Candidate Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero has informed the Campaign for Free and Fair Election (CaFFE) yest...

October 15, 2019 1 min read

Sajith promises meritocratic governance at AmCham forum

Presidential hopeful Sajith Premadasa called for a rational, meritocratic approach to governance, addressing an AmCham-o...

Yakuta Dawood
October 14, 2019 4 min read
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Breakaway SLFP group backs Sajith

A youth group calling themselves the "organisation to protect SLFP" says it will formally back the New Democratic Front ...

October 14, 2019 1 min read

Would have liked if Sajith ran for President as Party Leader-Navin

I would have liked to see Sajith Premadasa run for the presidency as the leader of the party, said Minister Navin Dissan...

October 14, 2019 1 min read

Upcountry Tamil voters are with us - Navin

Minister of Plantation Industries Navin Dissanayake is confident that although Arumugam Thondaman and his party are supp...

October 14, 2019 1 min read

Elpitiya result; A wake-up call

Jehan Perera argues that the result of the Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha shows that "" only a maximum alliance of like-minde...

Jehan Perera - Excecutive Director National Peace Council of Sri Lanka
October 14, 2019 7 min read

‘Hisbullah not backing Gota;’ SLPP rejects claims

SLPP rejected claims that former Eastern Province Governor M. L. A. M. Hisbullah is supporting its candidate in the upc...

October 14, 2019 1 min read

ULF may back Sajith

The United Left Front is likely to change its stance at the Presidential elections and back the candidacy of Sajith Prem...

October 12, 2019 1 min read

Mammoth crowd for Sajith's inaugural rally

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 11, 2019 6 min read

No trial for Gota during the campaign

This allows Gotabaya to campaign for the election without the distraction of the trial, and in case he wins and becomes ...

October 11, 2019 1 min read

Podcast episode: The Floating Vote

While these base votes are more or less guaranteed, says Senaratne, the remaining 17% floating may decide the outcome of...

October 11, 2019 1 min read

Experts for policymaking, not politicians – Sajith

New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa today ensured that policymaking will only be given to...

October 11, 2019 2 min read