President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday won unanimous backing for the 20th Amendment to the Constitution from both Cabinet as well as the Government Parliamentary Group, hours before the Bill is presented to the House today.

The United National Party has decided to conduct a series of programmes to educate the masses on the disadvantages of the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution and the undemocratic acts of the present administration.

India-Sri Lanka summit-level meeting will take place on a virtual platform on September 26.

Traffic Police will not fine those violating the ‘Lane Law’, which was to commence today, instead the offenders will be directed to mandatory advisory classes.

Former President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday denied the statement made by former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando regarding him testifying at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the 2019 Easter Sunday Attacks which was reported by the media.

The bodies have been recovered of a couple who got trapped inside a building at Buwelikada in Kandy following a caving-in, says the Disaster Management Centre.

Mohamed Farook alias “Barrel Ranji” has been arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division in Grandpass today.

A one-and-a-half-month-old infant was killed and two others were rescued after a five-storey building collapsed on to another building at Buwelikada in Kandy this morning.

Driver’s licences will be printed by the military from next year to help rein in the high costs of a private contractor.

The JVP says it will conduct a series of conferences JVP on the disadvantages of the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution.

Director General of Government Information Nalaka Kaluwewa in a statement yesterday said that the government has not taken any decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Two customs officers have been arrested by the police over the incident of illegally removing 33,000 kgs of Turmeric from Customs.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa urged the tea factory owners not to pave the way to tarnish the image of Ceylon Tea brand which has attracted many countries in the world for a long time.

Steps will be taken to allocate more space to three-wheelers and motorcycles which now have been restricted to the bus priority lane, says SSP Indika Hapugoda, the Director of the Traffic Control and Road Safety Division.

A CID officer involved in a number of investigations into Islamic extremism had made a six-minute phone call to Nihal Fernando, MP Harin Fernando’s father on April 20, 2019 and probably warned the latter of the impending suicide bomb attacks, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday attacks was informed on Wednesday.

While concurring with the position that Sri Lanka should pull out from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Cabinet Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena informing the UNHRC of the withdrawal from the co-sponsorship of Resolution 30/1 was the initial step in the process.