The National People's Power (NPP) has urged the people to take to the streets and hold hartals to secure an election.

Thailand will be given the temporary custody of the wounded tusker ‘Muthuraja’ on the promise that it will be returned after treatment, said its custodian, Ven. Kokkawita Vipulasara Thera.

Ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa marked his 74th birthday yesterday (21) with a Bodhi Pooja at Gautama Vihara in Narahenpita.

The Finance Ministry is fast losing faith in the public eye due to its double-standards in imposing taxes, said MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.

Stand-up comedian Natasha Edirisooriya has been remanded further on charges of having insulted Buddhism.

People who led the last struggle for dollars have now been exposed. Some political parties are trying to fulfill their needs by sacrificing the youth and some officials are trying to win their rights by sacrificing the people, Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa said.

Tamil politicians have asked president Ranil Wickremesinghe not to change a decision to return private land near two archaeological sites in the east.

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge-sheet against 13 persons, including Sri Lankan nationals, in the India-Sri Lanka illegal drugs and arms trade case relating to attempts to revive the LTTE in India and Sri Lanka.

A Tamil couple in the war-affected district of Mullaitivu accuse the forest officials of severely torturing them on unsubstantiated charges of stocking arrack and meat of protected animals.

Continuous delays in SriLankan Airlines flights are hampering the programme to send people for employment in Korea, said subject minister Manusha Nanayakkara.