The Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Freedom People’s Council and the Supreme Lanka Council are proposed to ally under a leadership council to contest the local government polls, reports lankadeepa.lk.

Ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, presently on vacation in Dubai with his family, is expected back home on January 05.

There are plans to import essential supplies on credit basis outside the tender procedure, say sources at the National Audit Office.

Jaffna has a new acting district secretary in Maradalingam Pratheepan from yesterday (01).

Several more parliamentarians of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) are planning to become independent, "Deshaya" reported.

MPs Wimalaweera Dissanayake and Jagath Kumara have already spoken publicly about their possible breakaway from the party.

The Election Commission has advised the national committee of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to seek legal redress for the questionable appointment of its office-bearers.

A presidential election is likely towards the end of this year in the event the scheduled local government polls are postponed further, according to ‘Divaina’.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) last night (31) held a religious activity in Kataragama for the 60th time to invoke merits on its founder the late S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and the late Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Upcountry political parties are to invite India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka to mark 200 years of history of estate Tamils.

North Korea has fired three short range ballistic missiles towards the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula, South Korea's military says.