The Excise Department has decided not to extend licences for 2025 of liquor producers who do not pay the arrears of taxes for 2023-2024 before November 30.

Former MP Namal Rajapaksa has challenged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to prove his allegations that the Rajapaksa regime has hidden billions of dollars in Uganda and other countries.

All political parties that supported former President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the recent Presidential Election are to contest the upcoming General Election under the New Democratic Front (NDF), with the ‘Gas Cylinder’ as their symbol.

Commemorating the 155th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya and the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi by garlanding his bust at Prime Minister’s Office in Colombo in the morning (02).

Former Minister Roshan Ranasinghe has joined the Mawbima Janatha Party (MJP) led by entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera.

Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha called on President Anura Kumara Dissanayake today (02) at the Presidential Secretariat.

Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (retd.) visited the Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) in Kandy to pay homage to the sacred relics on 28 September.

Vijitha Herath, the cabinet spokesman of the new government, has refrained from commenting on their power devolution policy when he met journalists for the first time.

A man claiming to be a supporter of new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has reportedly threatened Tamil women who protested in Vavuniya to demand justice for their missing children.

The UNP is to contest the general election under its ‘elephant’ symbol if it is not given the ‘gas cylinder’ as requested from the Election Commission.