Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the president Maithripala Sirisena are set to meet tomorrow for second level of talks of the future of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), party sources said. The meeting is due to take place after the Mr. Rajapaksa meets with the SLFP central commitee members. Political sources said that both of them met last night at the president Sirisena's residence and former president reportedly informed the president that he is willing to step down from the chairmanship of SLFP.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
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.
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