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The battle between the contestants is also a struggle to replace Sri Lanka's septuagenarian leadership with younger lead...
It has cost the authorities Rs. 60 million to date to remove posters, banners and cutouts promoting canddiates so far, t...
The National People’s Power (NPP) has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against a Sunday newspaper ...
All government schools across the island will be closed tomorrow (15) in view of the presidential election scheduled for...
Asian Election observers faulted both private and State Media organisations for favouring their chosen candidates during...
President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the country's seventh Executive President today at the sacred Ruv...
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today (07) said that Gotabaya Rajapaksa did not pledge to release all the soldie...
Provincial Correspondents should be allowed to freely report the Presidential Elections without obstruction, the Free Me...
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is saying that it has decided to support New Democratic Front presidential candidate S...
Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera said that the in the unlikely event of Gotabaya Rajapaksa winning the presidenti...
Police are investigating after bodyguards escorting Parliamentarian S B Dissanayake opened fire at a group trying to obs...
Once in power, Gotabaya Rajapaksa will suspend the agreements signed by the present Government if those agreements are s...
The hunger strike carried out against signing of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement has been called off.
UNF Parliamentarian S.M. Marikkar said that NDF has decided to boycott the political programs and advertisements to Hiru...
The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) is demanding that the National Election Commission address complaints...
Election watchdog the Center for Monitoring Election Violence is investigating claims by residents of Colombo that local...
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The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) said that according to their estimation the total spending by all can...
Former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga writing to President Maithripala Sirisena accused him of arbitrarily...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says Gotabaya Rajapaksa's proposal to eliminate the Z-score will jeopardize the futu...
Presidential hopeful Anura Kumara Dissanayake says, under his leadership, private universities will continue under stric...
In twelve days’ time, Sri Lankans will go to the polls to choose a new president in what increasingly looks like a ver...
JO MP Mahinda Samarasinghe claimed today that presidential hopeful Sajith Premadasa has not used the term ‘unitary sta...
CaFFE yesterday (03) requested all presidential candidates to reveal their stance on holding provisional council electio...
The hullabaloo over sanitary pads has served a salutary purpose. It has exposed our collective confusion over what is �...
The biggest of the parties in the Tamil National Alliance, the Ilangai Tamil Arasu Katchi is supporting the candidacy of...
The SLFP distanced itself from former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's decision to support presidential ho...
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