After today’s swearing-in of the Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers, President MaithripalaSirisena said it would be an interim-cabinet and that General Elections would be held after the completion of the 100-day programme.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Minister of Planning and Economic Development before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat a short while ago.

Economist and investment banker Arjuna Mahendran is to be appointed as the Central Bank Governor.

A team of officials of the Wildlife Conservation Department had raided the residence of UPFA MP Sajin de Vass Gunawardena at Ambalangoda in search of an elephant today.

The head of the National Movement for Social Justice, Venerable Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera today urged new President Maithripala Sirisena to form a national government as soon as possible and implement the reforms which were promised by him during elec

The swearing in ceremony of the new Cabinet will be held today 6. p.m. at the Presidential Secretariat.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said it would complain to the Bribery Commission tomorrow (13) about alleged financial frauds committed by former UPFA Minister Basil Rajapaksa, parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa and former Central Bank Governor Ajit

The 6th Executive President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena assumed his duties at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today.

January 14 Wednesday has been declared as a special public and bank holiday in view of Pope Francis’s visit to the country, the Government Information Department has announced.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today said that it would neither accept any ministerial portfolios of the National Unity Government of President Maithripala Sirisena nor take any part in it.

Commuters using the Katunayake-Colombo Expressway due to the closure of the Colombo-Negombo Road should not exceed 70 kmph, the Police Deparment said.

Dr. R.H.S. Samaratunge was today appointed Treasury Secretary and Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Planning.

Uva Provincial Council Minister Senthil Thondaman, who had a warrant issued for his arrest on charges of having assaulted a postal employee while delivering poll cards, had surrendered to the Bandarawela Magistrate’s Court today morning.

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Beijing, Ranjith Uyangoda yesterday rejected reports that he had come to Sri Lanka for the election campaign and said he was in Kandy for his mother’s alms giving on leave approved by the External Affairs Ministr