Minister of Industrial Export, Investment Promotion, Tourism and Aviation, Prasanna Ranatunga says that the Batticaloa Airport will be developed as an international airport.

Garnia Bannister Francis, the local employee of the Swiss Embassy in Colombo who was allegedly involved in an abduction case, was produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court by prison officers this morning (30).

The previous government had taken a decision to allow former Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan to use his official residence in Mahagamasekara Mawatha, Colombo further so long as he remains the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

Government politicians should understand why people rejected the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration in 2015 though it had strengthened the economy and implemented a lot of development projects, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa told heads of local government bodies at a meeting held on Saturday (28.)

Transfer of MP Rajitha Senaratne from Lanka Hospitals to the Prisons Hospital has been suspended.

The Ministry of Finance says the first foreign investment under the new government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be launched in the near future.

Ranil Wickremesinghe cannot be ousted from the leadership of the UNP until 2025 according to the Party Constitution, says UNP Legal Secretary, President’s Counsel Nissanka Nanayakkara.

Tamil Nadu’s major opposition party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and BJP’s ally Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) on Friday attacked the newly-elected Sri Lankan Government under President Gottabaya Rajapaksa for suspending the playing of the national anthem of the island nation in Tamil on its Independence Day in February.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called on officials to fulfil their responsibilities by creating a revolution in the vocational training industry, in order to produce skilled labour to meet the requirements of both local and foreign job markets.

Measures to bring down the price of rice in the local market and release rice stocks from warehouses will be discussed at the next Cabinet meeting, Environment, Wildlife, Land and Land Development Minister S.M. Chandrasena said.

The Motor Traffic Department has decided to introduce and SMS alert system notifying driving license applicants on the time to collect their license cards.

Former Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Lanka Hospitals a short while ago.

3 people died and 2 others sustained injuries following an accident in close proximity to the Sankapala Rajamaha Viharaya in Embilipitiya.

The government had allowed the private sector to control the rice market by destroying a cooperative movement of small and medium scale rice mill owners that was created in some districts under the previous government, MP Harsha de Silva said.

Former Northern Provincial Councillor MP Kanagalingam Sivajilingam was yesterday summoned to appear before the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID).