Police have temporarily recalled its personnel from duties at the local government polls due on March 09.

SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa has given an assurance never to engage in character assassinations hereafter for political or other gains in his politics.

Police used water cannons and teargas to disperse a protest by the SJB in Colombo yesterday afternoon (20) to demand local government polls.

MP Prof. G.L. Peiris has urged president Ranil Wickremesinghe to dissolve parliament, claiming the present government has no people’s mandate whatsoever.

An estimated 3,000 state sector employees who are on no-pay leave to contest the local government polls cannot report back for three months if the election is postponed, said a circular issued by the Ministry of Public Administration.

The National People’s Power (NPP) has entrusted its national defence policy to a former Army officer whose contingent of Sri Lankan peacekeepers to Haiti stands accused of sexual exploitation of children.

Hundreds of relatives of missing Tamils marched in Kilinochchi today (20) demanding an international investigation into crimes by the state.

The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court about factors that impede it from holding the local government polls as scheduled.

Director General of the South Asia Department of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Teruyuki Ito said that Sri Lanka's economic reform program is progressing positively and that Sri Lanka will be supported in the future through the programs of the International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

A motion to request the expeditious hearing of the writ application filed by a retired Army colonel, W.M.R. Wijesundera, needed not be supported, his lawyers informed the Supreme Court today (20).