Three mainstream political parties have so far paid more than Rs. 10 billion to pollsters to know the public opinion, according to political sources.

Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles has ordered IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon to conduct an immediate investigation into the recent statement by former President Maithripala Sirisena on the Easter Sunday bomb attacks.

The Sri Lanka Rupee will appreciate against the US dollar from the present Rs. 299 to stand between Rs. 250 and Rs. 260 soon, predicts professor of economics at Peradeniya University Wasantha Athukorale.

Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has said that he works for the country competitively, instead of going on with making person-centred criticisms or insults.

URF leader Patali Champika Ranawaka has advised Basil Rajapaksa to leave Sri Lanka and SLPP supporters alone and go to live in the country of his citizenship.

SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa has said that he had been absent at the vote on the no-faith motion against the speaker with the certainty that it would get defeated.

The SJB affiliate body of university teachers will hold its first annual convention at Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo on 07 April, starting at 4.00 pm.

The Vavuniya prison is badly overcrowded and like a torture chamber, said a former inmate.

Several SLFP organizers were present at the launch of Humane People’s Alliance by MP Dayasiri Jayasekara despite the party having informed all its organizers not to attend the event.

The Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Mizukoshi Hideaki expressed Japan’s support for the current program aimed at rebuilding the Sri Lankan economy.