The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) says they will sign an MoU within a few days, backing the common candidate Maithripala Sirisena.

Earlier, the media was alerted that six electoral organisers of Sarath Fonseka's Democratic Party (DP) were to arrive at the office of MP Sajin Vass Gunewardena today (29) to join the government.

Leaders of the Tamil National Alliance, other Tamil parties in the opposition as well as government affiliated Tamil parties representing the estate area have been summoned to New Delhi by political advisers to Indian Prime Minister - Narendra Modi, political sources say.

National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, who will be in Sri Lanka on Monday, will meet top leaders of the newly-formed common Opposition platform, in addition to meeting President Mahinda Rajpaksa, The Hindu learns from political sources in Colombo.

Although the government has decidde to appoint former parliamentarian of Batticaloa district - Ameer Ali to the MP position that fell vacant following the resignation of UPFA MP A.H.M. Azwer, it is likely that Ali will refuse the offer, 'Sri Lanka Mirror' learns.

The government has said that it played no part in the blocking of the website 'Sri Lanka Mirror' through the internet Service Provider (ISP) - Dialog Axiata, secretary to the Media Ministry Charitha Herath disclosed.

Dialog Axiata PLC has acquired a controlling stake of over 50% of Digital Commerce Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, which owns the e-commerce site - Anything.lk.