State Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara today said they planned to increase tariffs for domestic water bills exceeding usage of 15 units.

Gampaha District parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake said today several minor parties had offered to give him nomination to contest the next general election and that he was ready to join them if he was denied the ticket to contest under the UNP.

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has nominated MP Sajith Premadasa as the Opposition Leader of Parliament, party sources said. Mr. Wickremesinghe has decided to nominate Mr. Premadasa to the post following the consultations held with the UNP Parliamen

A 21-year-old man was arrested and handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over an alleged plot to assassinate President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the police said.

The Education Ministry has requested an immediate report over the alleged issuance of 427 illegal letters to admit students for schools violating the election laws and the Constitution.

The gazette notification announcing subjects and institutions coming under each minister will be issued over the next couple of days, the Cabinet was informed yesterday.

The train services on the up-country railway track have been disrupted since last night due to the earth slip between Diyathalawa and Bandarawela, the Railway Control Room said.

The government is in the process of levying a toll from all private vehicles entering Colombo and its suburbs as a solution to the mounting traffic congestion in 2020, a senior source of the Commuter Transport Management Ministry said yesterday.

Representatives of several political parties who attended a meeting with officials attached to the Elections Commission (EC) yesterday had requested its Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya not to step down from chairmanship, Daily Mirror learns.

The Parliamentary Elections would be held between April 23 to May 6, 2020, if Parliament is dissolved on March 1, 2020, Election Commission Director General Saman Sri Rathnayake told Daily Mirror.

UNF Parliamentary Group will meet at party headquarters Sirikotha today for a healthy discussion on the party’s future, UNP National Organiser Navin Dissanayake said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s new interim government will launch green projects in several parts of the country as part of a mega beautification programme as well as maintaining the environment, Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa told the Daily Mirror yesterday.

In our news item titled ‘Diplomats apprised of progress’ published on Thursday’s Daily Mirror, we have inadvertently mentioned that Ministry Secretary Ravinatha P. Aryasinha has urged the police to record a statement from MP Rajitha Senaratne w

UNP today criticised the manifesto of UK’s Conservative party which had called for a two-state solution for the national issue in Sri Lanka and urged the party to scrap it.

A six-year-old half Sri Lankan boy Abdullah who lives in London has written a letter to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa requesting him to protect the country’s environment for the future generation.

The Election Commission (EC) has raised its concerns over the change in the election system and discussed the several issues pertaining to the election system with the party secretaries today.

The government today briefed Colombo based diplomats including the Swiss Ambassador to Sri Lanka on updates of the investigation into the incident involving a staffer attached to the Swiss Embassy, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said today.

Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake said he was contemplating whether to contest the general election in the Gampaha District from an independent list or to give up politics and become a full-time artiste if he was denied the ticket to contest the

The Cabinet has decided that permits to transport sand, granite and soil were no longer necessary, Environment, Wildlife Resources, Land and Land Development Minister S.M. Chandrasena said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s move to call on the three forces to maintain law and order in the country at a time when there was no emergency situation was a bad sign that the country was heading towards as a military rule, National People’s Pow

Immediate measures should be taken to close the recently opened Barawakumbuka to Mattala segment of the Southern Expressway (E01) with immediate effect and to take legal action against all responsible persons who were involved in the sudden opening o

Two new governors were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for Eastern and North Central Provinces today. Anuradha Yahampath was appointed as the Eastern Province Governor while Professor Tissa Witharana was appointed as the North Central Pr

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who met with Canadian High Commissioner David McKinnon, said Sri Lanka would like to see more Sri Lankan-Canadians come back and invest in the country.

Many roads in Colombo including Horton Place, Wijerama Road, Bauddhaloka Mawatha and Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha were flooded during the torrential rains causing heavy traffic.

State Minister of Industries Dayasiri Jayasekera said today that none of the vehicles at his ministry, while new, can be used and that he hoped to get at least one vehicle from the Presidential Secretariat.

Mickey Arthur, who has previously coached South Africa, Australia and Pakistan, is set to take up the next assignment in his coaching career, as head coach of Sri Lanka, ahead of their upcoming two-Test series in Pakistan.

The licence of the Walapane quarry had been suspended following the Walapane landslide tragedy, (GA) Rohana Pushpakumara said.

Clarifying the UK’s Conservative Party’s stance with regard to its reference to Sri Lanka in its election manifesto, senior party officials said the reference is applicable only to the Middle East but not to Cyprus or Sri Lanka.

UPFA Ratnapura district parliamentarian Ranjit de Soysa passed away this morning at the age of 57 while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Singapore.

Following the Daily Mirror’s exclusive report yesterday, stating that the alleged victim of the Swiss Embassy detention case had been slapped with an ’unofficial travel ban’, this ban has now been formalised by the Colombo Chief Magistrate who