Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe resigns from Constitutional Council

Anura slams Ranil, says he is not the PM

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake slammed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe saying he has no right to be Prime Minister anymore. Dissanayake said that since the Government was given only 100 days to be in power Wickremesinghe is no more the Prime Minister. He also noted that with a dispute over the opposition leader post there is instability in the country and so Parliament must be dissolved soon and Parliament elections held. The JVP leaderalso??said that the

29 May, 2015

UK envoy notes optimism in the North

British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James Dauris made his first official visit to the Northern Province last week. During his visit, he called on the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C.V Wigneswaran, the Security Forces Commander in Jaffna, Major General Nandana Udawatta, the Acting Security Forces Commander in Mullaitivu, Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, TNA MPs Suresh Premachandra and Siddharthan as well as Gajen Ponnambalam, the President?of the Tamil National People?s Font and t

29 May, 2015

New Ministers replace those who left

New Ministers have been appointed today including four who will replace the four Ministers who had resigned from the Government recently. Accordingly Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena was appointed a Minister, Pandu Bandaranayake, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Hemal Gunasekera as State Ministers and Chandrasiri Sooriyarachchi?as a?Deputy Minister. (Colombo Gazette)

29 May, 2015