Politics

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with Parliamentarians from the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) today (04) at the Presidential Secretariat. During the discussion, the ITAK MPs brought to the President’s attention the longstanding challenges faced by the people in the...

I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who supported and worked tirelessly to grant the National People’s Power (NPP) a strong mandate. There is no division between groups of people be it those who are happy and those...

The Presidential Secretariat has noted recent media reports claiming that the security of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been reduced. The Presidential Secretariat states that all those reports are false and confirms that it has provided him with the benefits...

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to make a special statement on Thursday, October 17. Sources close to Wickremeisnghe said he would speak about the present political situation and reveal some future plans. The former President has already decided not to...

The Election Commission announced that the deadline for accepting applications for postal voting in the 2024 General Election, has been extended until midnight on October 10, 2024. The deadline was initially set to expire at midnight tonight.

S. Shritharan, Member of Parliament (MP), Tamil National Alliance (TNA), from the Jaffna district, met with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat today (01). During the meeting, former MP Shritharan congratulated President Dissanayake on his election as the...

Honourable Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as the 9th Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka today (23). He was ceremonially sworn in before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. Following the...