The printing of ballot papers is yet to begin for the local government polls.

Hospitals have been instructed to postpone surgeries which are not of an urgent or essential nature on the advice of medical specialists.

Even the opposition is without a policy-based solution to the country’s economic and political crisis, said the Frontline Socialist
Party.

A Sri Lankan woman who had gone missing following the earthquake in Turkey has been found dead in the debris of her home.

The Paris Club of creditors has given financing assurances to support the IMF’s approval of an extended fund facility for Sri Lanka, according to Reuters.

Minister of foreign affairs Ali Sabry said that the Sri Lankan government will decriminalise same-sex relationships.

Police have so far received Rs. 50 million out of a total of Rs. 2.8 billion it has sought to provide protection for the upcoming local government polls.

Justice minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has resigned from the ministerial subcommittee on coal procurement.

The political authority and certain groups and media are placing hurdles in the way of holding the local government polls, charged Election Commission chairman Nimal Punchihewa.

Ex-chairman Harsha de Silva has been dropped from the Committee on Public Finance (COPA).