Ruling MP Madhura Withanage has called for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into matters relating to tax defaulting.

The gazette notification for the process to hold the local government polls is yet to be sent to the Government Printer.

Hundreds of Tamil plantation workers marched from Maliyappu Junction to Hatton yesterday (29) to mark 200 years since their arrival from India.

Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said that a charge sheet related to the removal of the chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Janaka Ratnayake is being prepared and will be presented to Parliament soon.

The government has drafted a proposal to get the Election Commission’s consent for a postponement of the local government polls for a specific duration, highly placed sources said.

A number of independent groups at the local government polls are planning to form an alliance for the purpose of campaigning, ‘Deshaya’ reports.

Any disruption to the government’s economic revival efforts will unavoidably take the country to a crisis similar to the one that prevailed mid-last year, said president Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Election commission chairman Nimal Punchihewa says arrangements are being made to hold local government polls on March 09 as scheduled.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe still remains undecided whether to accept the resignation of P.S.M. Charles from the Election Commission.

The drug menace that affects the entire country will be curbed by one way or another, said public security minister Tiran Alles.