The UNP leader mentioned seniors Ravi Karunanayake, Vajira Abeywardene, Daya Gamage and Kariyawasam as possible successors.
August 11, 2020The Commission will be chaired retired Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne.
January 11, 2020The message was more than obvious to the outgoing Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, lost the presidential poll.
November 25, 2019Mahinda Rajapaksa became the country's youngest-ever parliamentarian in 1970 at the age of 24.
November 21, 2019Rajapaksa, the main opposition leader, will be appointed as prime minister after incumbent Wickremesinghe steps down formally on Thursday.
November 21, 2019Rajapaksa also said that the public's decision at the ballot box needed to be respected.
November 19, 2019India, Britain and China are the leading markets for Sri Lanka's tourism.
July 15, 2019The Easter Sunday bombings which also injured over 500 people was the bloodiest attack in the island after the civil war ended in 2009.
July 11, 2019Over 100 people including 10 women are in custody in connection with April's Easter Sunday suicide attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo.
June 22, 2019Sirisena backed by the then main Opposition United National Party (UNP) became the common Opposition candidate against his former boss Rajapaksa.
June 2, 2019"Had I known it, I would not have left the country," he said.
June 1, 2019Nations like Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal congratulated PM Modi on his landmark victory in the Lok Sabha election 2019.
May 23, 2019All those freed were in jail for minor offences and did not include convicts jailed for rape, child abuse, heroin use and drug trafficking.
May 18, 2019Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the curfew was declared to prevent unidentified groups destabilising the country by orchestrating communal violence.
May 14, 2019There, Buddhist monks joined Catholic priests for prayers in a show of solidarity with the Christian community.
April 28, 2019The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Easter terror attacks on three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels that claimed 253 lives but the government has blamed a local Islamist extremist group National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ) for the bombings.
April 26, 2019Meanwhile, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday claimed that intelligence report warning of attacks was not shared with him adding that he expects to change heads of defence forces within 24 hours.
April 24, 2019