The 43rd Brigade group led by former Minister Champika Ranawaka and former Minster Kumar Welgama’s Nawa Lanka Freedom Party have teamed up to contest the local elections together.
The two sides will field candidates in selected local councils.
The two sides entered into an agreement on Monday.
The decision of Mr Ranawaka to contest separately with Mr Welgama’s party was seen as a set back to Samgi Jana Balawegaya who earlier had the support of Mr Ranawaka’s party.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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