Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena may be able to stay in his position by mustering a majority to defeat the no-faith motion against him, but he would never be able to get re-elected, JVP/NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament yesterday (20).

Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka was once again unanimously elected as the Chair of the Committee on Ways and Means.

Leader of National People’s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MP Duminda Dissanayake too have stepped down from the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).

The SJB has decided at its working committee to implement an extensive programme to face future elections.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Education and Microsoft Company at the Presidential Secretariat on Tuesday, marking the commencement of a pilot project to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the school curriculum.

The SLPP’s parliamentary group was due to meet at the party head office at Battaramulla today (100) at 10.00 am.

NPP executive committee member K.D. Lalkantha has offered to teach socialism and economic policies of his party to opposition leader Sajith Premadasa.

East governor Senthil Thondaman has assisted Ampara youths rehabilitated for drug use to start self-employment ventures.

The Jaffna District Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Unions has launched a hunger strike yesterday (19) demanding that the Sri Lankan government offer a lasting solution to the protracted Indian fisherfolk poaching issue.

Courts have dismissed a case against eight Tamil Hindus arrested for performing religious activities at a site also claimed by Buddhists in Vavuniya on the night of 08 March.