Sri Lanka’s new cabinet of ministers and state ministers are taking oaths at the historic Magul Maduwa in Kandy under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The cabinet is limited to 28 ministries and 40...
Now that the parliamentary elections are concluded, the focus of the new government should shift to the serious business of fixing the economy. COVID-19 has hit Sri Lanka’s economic outlook harder than expected. A gloomy prognosis suggests a scenario...
Firecrackers were set off as supported of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) celebrated its landslide victory at the 2020 parliamentary election.
The SLPP won a total of 145 seats, and therefore received a majority in the new parliament that...
The parliamentary elections, the first major election held during the pandemic in South Asia, concluded with an average of 70 per cent voter turnout.
“It is a very successful election and a good turnout,” an Election Commission official told...
A massive blast has left hundreds of people wounded in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, foreign media reports.
The cause of the blast is yet to be known.
According to Lebanon’s state news agency NNA the blast has taken place in...
People are urged to vote for tomorrows parliamentary election as there are reports that some voters are planning to boycott the event.
The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has found that the cost spent per voter is Rs. 523....
An official attached to the police media said the incident where a cat that was caught with illegal drugs tied to its neck has been taken for a joke.
“The cat was used because it could climb over the prison...
Strick regulations and proactive removal of hate speech and misinformation could have led to the lower number of hate speech and divisive language used on social media platforms during the current election period compared to last year’s Presidential Election,...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he has no intention of changing the recently made appointments of government official and stressed that the decision was made after careful consideration.
He made this statement after pressure was mounted against these appointments.
“All these appointments...
