Keheliya Rambukwella returns as Media Minister

SLPP says Sinhalese Buddhists defeated racism

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) says Sinhalese Buddhists united at the last Presidential election and defeated racism. SLPP member, Parliamentarian Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena urged Tamils and Muslims in the country to support the SLPP to defeat racism. He said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa are keen to work for the people in the North and East. Abeywardena said that in the past political parties in the North did not promote racism. Bu this time th

26 Nov, 2019

New State Ministers and Deputy Ministers take oaths

New State Ministers and Deputy Ministers took oaths before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today. Among those who took oaths as State Ministers were former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa and Parliamentarians Vasudeva Nananayakara, Gamini Lokuge, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, S.B Dissanayake, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Susil Premjayantha and Duminda Dissanayake. Among the Deputy Ministers who took oaths were Nimal Lanza and Kanchana Wijesekera. The newly appointed State Ministers and

27 Nov, 2019

India terms recent election in Sri Lanka as ?a festival of democracy?

India has termed the recently concluded Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka as ?a festival of democracy?. The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Taranjit Singh Sandhu delivered the Lalith Athulathmudali Commemoration Freedom Speech at the BMICH before a packed audience. The topic of the address was ??ndia- Sri Lanka relations for a shared and secured future?.? The Oration was organised by the Lalith Athulathmudali Foundation, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and the Institut

27 Nov, 2019