The results of the elections to the first Eastern Provincial Council show the people's endorsement of the government's policy of restoring democracy and normalcy to areas hitherto controlled by the terrorists, and the overall development programme already initiated in the ...

The United National Party says the entire polls of the Eastern Province were corrupted and the party will take legal actions against the responsible authorities. Speaking to media General Secretary of the party Tissa Attanayake said the UNP has a ...

  TMVP leader Pillayan has got the most number of preferential votes for the UPFA in Batticaloa with 38, 718 votes while J. S Mohomad came second with 34,782 votes and M.L.A.M Hisbullah came third with 34,581 votes.

  The United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance has achieved an outstanding victory in the first ever provincial council election in the eastern province. The UPFA received 308,886 votes and 20 seats in the eastern provincial council. The United National Party has received ...

UPFA won the Eastern Province election a shortwhile ago.

“While people in Trincomalee were brave enough to fight violence unleashed by government and minimized rigging, in both Batticaloa and Ampara the government had a field day with TMVP and rigged votes especially in Tamil areas” says SLMC leader Rauff ...

The Election Secretariat says the UPFA has secured majority of the EPC election a short while ago. UPFA has won seven polling divisions out of 10 polling divisons of the province.The first chief minister of the EPC will assume duties ...

  OIC Mutur who was beaten up by Minister K.A. Baiz and now receiving treatment at Mutur hospital has been transferred with immediate effect.

 Pro LTTE website www.tamilnet says that Paramilitary TMVP personnel entered several polling stations in the Tamil areas in Batticaloa and Trincomalee and stuffed the ballot boxes forcefully during the last-hour, before the ballot boxes were removed to counting centers in ...

 Mohammed Rasooldeen,   RIYADH, 11 May 2008 — Police are investigating the case of a Sri Lankan national whose partially charred body was found in his apartment in the southern city of Abha on Friday.Mohammed Imtisam Shamsudeen, 28, assistant ...

              JVP breakaways Wimal Weerawansa and Nandana Gunatilake will launch their political party in Colombo on May 14th, an activist in their political movement said..There will be 350 invitees when the new movement, which is yet to be given ...

Back door overseas appointments to clerical staff by Shamindra FerdinandoForeign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama’s brother-in-law Palitha Ganegoda has been appointed Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner to New Delhi. Ganegoda who held the rank of Minister at the New Delhi mission has ...