In an unprecedented development the leading hotel close the Katunayake airport called the Gateway Hotel Airport Garden has been fully booked with not a single room left.

The absence of an adequate storage capacity at the Muthurajawela Petroleum Complex has prompted the Petroleum Corporation to hand the facility over to an appropriate company that will be able to restructure it.

As Sri Lanka begins voting in the country's seventh Presidential election today (08), state owned television channels - Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) and Independent Television Network (ITN) have been blatantly violating election regulations by broadcasting programmes partial to the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Police have seized a stock of documents suspected to be forged ballot papers, in an estate road of the Udagama area.

Voting for the Presidential election began this morning at 7 and the voting will conclude at 4 pm today.