Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Parliamentarians Faisal Kassim and Ali Zahir Moulana, who resigned from their ministerial posts, have been sworn in as State Ministers again.
Faisal Kassim has been sworn in as the Minister of State for Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine while Ali Zahir Moulana Sayed was sworn in as the Minister of Primary Industries and Social Empowerment
The State ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
An interim order prohibiting Deshabandu Tennakoon from carrying out his duties as Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been issued by the Supreme Court.
The Presidential election will be held on September 21, the Commission of Elections has decided.
The former leader of the New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and the New Left Front and well-known figure in left-wing politics in Sri Lanka, Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne, passed away at the age of 81.
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