Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has left for Singapore for a medical check-up early this morning.

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) was signed a short while ago.

New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said yesterday he would focus on e-governance in a bid to introduce an artificial intelligence management dashboard at the Presidential Secretariat thus enabling the formulation of no

Changing of national alcohol policies according to the Finance Ministry’s whims and fancies was undemocratic action, the Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC) said.

The incumbent government should be sent home the first opportunity available, SLPP leader and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday the UNF-led alliance would continue constitutional reforms under its candidate Sajith Premadasa if he were elected to office next month.

MP Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera yesterday said SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the leader who can salvage the country from the abyss it has fallen into.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will hold talks with the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Gotabaya Rajapaksa shortly, a party official said today.

The Election Commission received 46 complaints by Tuesday evening regarding the election law violations, an official said.

SLFP’s decision to support SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not make any difference where the UNF led alliance’s candidate Sajith Premadasa is concerned, Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations Ravindra Samaraweera said today.

Kicking off his political campaign in Anuradhapura today, a fired-up SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa made pledges to deliver upon winning the election, one of which was to free all military men who had been sent to jail after being cha

SLFP stalwart MP Duminda Dissanayake, who joined SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the latter’s political stage in Anuradhapura along with several other SLFP MPs, said the victory was with Gotabaya and invited all SLFPers to back hi

Former Deputy Minister W.B. Ekanayake, who pledged his support to the DNF presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa a few weeks ago, today extended his support to SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) Chairman M.K.Sivajilingam, who handed over nominations for the upcoming presidential election, has resigned from the party’s chairmanship.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) will be signed tomorrow, SLFP General Secretary, MP Dayasiri Jayasekera said.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

SLFP national organiser Duminda Dissanayake and SLFP Media Spokesman Weerakumara Dissanayake joined members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on the SLPP stage at the presidential rally being held in Anuradhapura.

IGP Pujith Jayasundera and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were remanded until October 23 by Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today.

SLFP national organizer Duminda Dissanayake will attend the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) rally to be held in Anuradhapura today, SLFP general secretary Dayasiri Jayaseka said.

Revising the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court order to release IGP Pujith Jayasundera and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando on bail, the Colombo High Court today (Oct 9) ordered to remand the suspects again.

The probe into the mysterious deaths of seven elephants that died in the Hiriwadunna Thumbaikulam Reserve in Habarana has revealed that the deaths were caused due to a poison, Wildlife Conservation Department Director-General M.G.C. Sooriyabandara sa

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has decided to support Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the upcoming presidential election, MP Nimal Siripala de Silva said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that he, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and the TNA leader R. Sampanthan are still in politics as there is no retirement age for politicians.

Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa had been appointed as the Acting Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) until the end of the presidential election, SLFP Spokesperson MP Weerakumara Dissanayake said.

The Election Commission has decided to import plastic ballot boxes to be used at the presidential elections because the stocks available are hardly sufficient for the upcoming election, EC Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya told Daily Mirror yesterday.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa said the candidates may not always agree on policies and principles but they could still respect one another.

Responding to the New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa’s pledge to forgo the president’s salary if elected so as to help the poor, the Opposition said yesterday such ‘trivial’ solutions won’t help resolve natio

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa will launch his election campaign from Anuradhapura today, his spokesman MP Dullas Alahapperuma said yesterday.

Responding to the explosion of a regulation tank at Aruwakkalu sanitary landfill on Monday, the Megapolis and Western Development Ministry said it could be an act of sabotage.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today the people had already decided to whom they would vote at the upcoming presidential election and those defeated should allow the person elected to rule the country.