The Election Commission (EC) has issued a gazette notification announcing the date for the presidential elections.
According to the EC's gazette dated today (Sept 18), nominations for the poll would be called on October 7.
The election would be held on November 16, the gazette read.
So far the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the National People's Power alliance have nominated former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their presidential candidates respectively.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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