The JVP says that there are doubts now whether the United National Party (UNP) is not acting against the alleged corruption that had taken place during the Rajapksa regime because of a hidden agenda of bringing the Rajapaksas back in to power.

The UN's report on Sri Lanka is still listed to be taken up next month.

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge has left for the UK on Saturday in anger after hearing of her appointment to an advisory committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).

With a promise for a “new beginning” in India-Sri Lanka ties, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in New Delhi on Sunday evening, ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

ndia and Sri Lanka will seek to open a new chapter in ties on Monday with a meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena who has chosen India for his maiden visit abroad as president. In a likely big takeaway from the visit, India and Sri Lanka will sign a civil nuclear cooperation agreement.

The Prime minister has decided to appoint two senior journalists to head two leading english publications of the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. (ANCL).