The FCID on July 30 sought orders from the Kaduwela magistrate courts to further investigate the assets said to have been earned by ex-MP Namal Rajapaksa through improper means.

Namal Rajapaksa the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who won the Hambantota district at the last 2010 April election with a preference vote of over 84%, will this time lose the district says a forecast published by senior journalist and political analyst Kusal Perera.

The membership of 06 United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Provincial Councillors have been suspended.

The cabinet has appointed a committee to investigate the granting of a tender, without calling for bids, to a private company for the construction of the security forces headquarters complex at Akuregoda in Battaramulla.

UNF Colombo district candidate Upul Shantha Sannasgala is a good personal friend, JVP national list nominee, lawyer Upul Kumarapperuma says, adding that it is on the basis of that friendship that his name had been mentioned for inquiries in an invitation for a lawyers’ meeting in June.

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa won the 2005 presidential election by striking a deal with the LTTE and giving Rs. 200 million to Prabhakaran, says prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.