UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said voice vote was taken by the Speaker on the No Confidence Motion submitted in Parliament against the Government and that 122 MPs informed the Speaker that they voted in favour of it.

G.S. Vithanage , the Secretary of Transport and Civil Aviation Ministry has been appointed as the Chairman of the Srilankan Airlines, the Finance Ministry said today. The appointment has been made by Ministry Secretary S.R. Attygalle.

The government today rejected that there was a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said they wont accept the motion which was submitted by the JVP as it was not taken up for a proper debate.

Minister Wasantha Senanayake told media that he was going to resign from his ministerial portfolio shortly.

Minister Wasantha Senanayake was seen with UNP MP Sajith Premadasa and Ravi Karunanayake at a committee room in Parliament complex.  

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today announced that the no-confidence motion brought in against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and the Government passed in Parliament.    

Parliament was adjourned till 10.00 am tomorrow.  

Minister AHM Fowzie, Piyasena Gamage and Manusha Nanayakkara crossed over to the opposition in Parliament.  

The motion brought in to suspend the Standing Orders passed in Parliament with a majority in Parliament a short while ago.  

Parliament sessions began a short while ago for the first time after the President prorogued Parliament on October 27.  

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has decided to hand over a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today, JVP MP Vijitha Herath said.

The Party leaders met at the parliamentary complex a short while ago under the chairmanship of Speaker Karu Jayasuriya. 

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) will certainly contest the elections under a common front and a com mon symbol, SLPP front-liner Basil Rajapaksa said yesterday.

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said that UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was caught in his own trap of allowing the Rajapaksa faction to flourish.

The government yesterday maintained that the Supreme Court’s interim order does not mean that the dissolution of parliament has been cancelled and said that it would request for a full-judge bench to hear the case.

UPFA MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today they were prepared to form a stable government after rectifying their previous mistakes if they were given a two-thirds majority at the general elections.

Sri Lanka leading dramatist, and a lecturer Jayalath Manoratne had been hospitalised due to sudden illness, Sri Lanka Singers Association (SLSA) President Keerthi Pasquel said.

The government yesterday said Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has no legal right to reconvene parliament today (14) and that it would make a decision this morning regarding its MPs and Ministers attending parliament.  

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today said the interim order issued by Supreme Courts suspending the dissolution of Parliament was a resounding victory for the people’s franchise.

The National Security Council chaired by President Maithripala Sirisena met this evening.    

Rumors circulating that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa had resigned were completely false, UPFA MP Namal Rajapaksa said in a tweet.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said today Parliament would be convened tomorrow at 10.00 am as per the Gazette (2095/50) issued by President Maithripala Sirisena dated November 4, 2018, the Speaker’s office said.

UPFA MP Namal Rajapaksa said the Supreme Court’s interim order on the dissolution of parliament was not the Court's final decision. In a tweet he said he had never seen politicians get ‘so excited’ over postponing of elections.

Speaker karu Jayasuriya has convened a party leaders meeting at 8.30 a.m. tomorrow morning at the parliament complex.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MPs have decided to meet Speaker Karu Jayasuriya at 7.00 p.m. today and request him to convene Parliament tomorrow, Party sources said.

UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a Twitter message that the people have won their first victory. 

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court today issued an interim order till December 7 staying the proclamation issued by President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve parliament.  

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today rejected reports of giving nominations to anyone and said it has not yet finalised nomination lists.

Anti-Corruption Force Operations Director Namal Kumara today said that he would contest at the upcoming Parliamentary Election as the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna (SLPP) candidate.

The three-Judge bench of the Supreme Court concluded all submissions with regard to the Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions filed against the dissolution of parliament and the court hearing was adjourned till 5 p.m. today to deliver its judgment. &nbs