Leaders of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) including Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa signed nomination papers today (11) for the upcoming parliamentary election.
Premier Rajapaksa will contest the parliamentary election from the Kurunegala district from where he was elected to parliament during the 2015 parliamentary election.
Meanwhile, many other district leaders of the SLPP also signed their nomination papers at today's ceremony to contest the upcoming parliamentary election.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former President and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Chairman Maithripala Sirisena were among those in attendence.
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Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
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