Both the SJB and the NNP have quitted a newly-appointed parliamentary committee that inquires into the country’s economic insolvency.

Lawyers in the northern and eastern provinces have protested against government MP Sarath Weerasekara over his recent remarks in contempt of court.

Former President and incumbent Opposition Parliamentarian Maithripala Sirisena has filed a motion in the Supreme Court (SC) requesting that he be allowed to pay Rs. 85 million (Mn) of the Rs. 100 million compensation ordered to be paid to the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks and their families, in 10 installments of Rs. 8.5 million each, from 30 June 2024 to 20 June 2033. Sirisena has already paid Rs. 15 million.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe during his official visit to Sri Lanka this morning (11).

Colombo district leader of the United National Party (UNP) Ravi Karunanayake promises a major reawakening to create a bright and blooming party by taking political leaders like the late V.A. Sugathadasa as an example.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has asked eight of its suspended members to a meeting of the party’s central committee on 14 July.

A presidential recommendation for a second service extension for C.D. Wickramaratne as the IGP has been referred to the Constitutional Council for approval, said speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena.

Buddhist clergy has called for the enactment of a ‘Sanghadhikarana bill’ to discipline misbehaving monks.

Tamil politicians have accused government MP Sarath Weerasekara of demeaning a magistrate over his ethnicity and thereby intimidating the judiciary.

Nearly 150 victims of aerial bombings on a church and a kovil in Navali in Jaffna in 1995 have been remembered.