Politics

UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardena yesterday said that the country will have a formidable UNP Government by end of 2023 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He said that preliminary arrangements are…

Ten proposals have been submitted to the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to identify appropriate reforms of the election laws and the electoral system at a committee meeting held at the Parliament premises yesterday (14), said…

People’s Action For Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) told the Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Law Reforms, that it is appropriate for Sri Lanka to have a mixed electoral system that includes First-Past-the-Post (FPTP)…

People’s Action For Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) told the Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Law Reforms, that it is appropriate for Sri Lanka to have a mixed electoral system that includes First-Past-the-Post (FPTP)…

Proposals were received from ten recognized Political Parties on reforming the Election Structure and Electoral Law, Leader of the House Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said. Minister Gunawardena stated that 10 proposals have been…

There is an attempt to hand over the operations of the Yugadanavi Power Plant in Kerawalapitiya and its supply and storage facilities, to a US-based firm, JVP Leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake alleged. Speaking at a press…

United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara said that the Director General of Health does not have the power to impose regulations beyond the country's basic law. Speaking to the media today, he noted that…

Special permission is now required to send money even to a student studying in a foreign country, former Minister Navin Dissanayake stated. Addressing a press conference in Colombo recently, Dissanayake stated that this Government…

UNP Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the present government requires a national policy that cannot be changed from time to time. He said that the his Party is committed to have such national policy for…

The Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus has recommended that all electoral laws in Sri Lanka should be coded as one electoral code and proposed that the Parliamentary Select Committee on electoral law reforms make necessary amendments.…