Former Lakbima newspaper editor and convener of the Committee of the Free Media Movement Saman Wagarachchi today (January 24) assumed duties as the director of the Editorial Board of Lake House Newspapers.

As many as 43 dogs imported from foreign countries were kept at former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's official residence at Temple Trees.

Tainted politicians Duminda Silva, Sajin Vaas Gunawardena and Rohitha Abeygunawardena along with several others will not be given nominations by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party to contest the upcoming Parliamentary election.

The Eelam People's Democratic Front (EPDP) is to contest the Parliamentary election forming an alliance with leftist parties in the south, internal sources told srilankamirror.

The right to information is to be once again incorporated into the country's Constitution enshrined as a Fundamental Right under Section 14, government inside sources revealed.

The television channel Carlton Sports Network (CSN) operated by Yoshitha Rajapaksa, the son of the toppled President, is to be investigated for irregularities.

President Maithripala Sirisena has warned that he will call for the ouster of his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa as a patron of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) if it is proved the ex-President was involved in a coup to remain in power on the night of January 8, the day election results were poring in.