Officers of the Elections Commission who went to Nittambuwa to take down a portrait of President Mahinda Rajapaksa that was strung up near the traffic lights signal in violation of the Election Law were obstructed by deputy minister Sarana Gunawardena and his supporters, election monitor the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said.

The Android App for 'Sri Lanka Mirror' has now been released.

Gem mining with sucker machinery in rivers has been banned for 20 days in Ratnapura.

Propaganda Secretary of the Peratugami Party Pubudu Jagoda has claimed that government ministers were not against the arrival of Kumar Gunaratnam.

More Members of Parliament are expected to make their crossovers by the middle of next week as the Presidential election nears its final phase, political sources say.

Transparency International Sri Lanka has charged that members of the armed forces have been enlisted to paste stamps on envelopes containing election propaganda of President Mahinda Rajapaksa ahead of next month's election.

Former Sri Lanka President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaranatunga has said that the whole country knows what happened to millions of dollars provided by the international community for tsunami relief work that went into a fund called "Helping Hambantota".