Deputy leader of the UNP Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has urged the intelligent people against the use of archaeology along a racist line in politics.

The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has sent 18 pharmacists back to the Health Ministry after allegations they had enjoyed privileges from both institutions.

As the main government affiliate, the SLPP will continue to support president Ranil Wickremesinghe’s nation-building programme, pledged its national organizer Basil Rajapaksa.

Struggles by the Tamils to win their rights cannot be repressed by unlawful arrests, said the TNPF.

SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa has ridiculed those who have failed to get any SJB MP to join the government.

The National Movement for a Just Society says it is studying the ongoing dialogue on a purported draft for an electronic media regulatory commission with interest.

MP Nimal Lanza has ruled out any need to dissolve parliament, claiming the government would not collapse even if the pro-Rajapaksa MPs left the government.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is considering the possibility of dissolving parliament if internal disruptions persist against the continuation of the government, said reliable sources.

Fifty-one divisional secretariats across the island will start issuing passports via online tomorrow (15), said public security minister Tiran Alles.

A team of doctors of the Sri Lanka Army surgically removed what is considered to be the largest and heaviest kidney stone from a patient on June 01.