UPFA Western Provincial Councillor Hirunika Premachandra, who recently pledged her support to common candidate Maithripala Sirisena, has gone overseas.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he is ready to hold a referendum to seek public opinion on a constitutional amendment.

At least two persons were reportedly killed and two others hospitalised after an Russian made Antanov-32 fixed wing aircraft of Sri Lanka Air Force crashed into a rubber state in Athurugiriya at around 5.00 am today, police said.

Media Secretary of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) Nishantha Sri Warnasinghe said in a media release that the people of this country will deliver their verdict on its assistant secretary Udaya Gammanpila who crossed over to the government while condemning the policies of the party.

Minister Mervyn Silva has called himself a man inside a boiling container completely disgusted.

The Kandurata Janatha Perumana has decided to support Common Opposition Candidate Maithripala Sirisena at next month's Presidential election, its secretary and former Uva Provincial Council member A. Aravindh Kumara said.

Key government figures are pressuring Sri Lankan cricketers to campaign on their behalf at next month's Presidential election, inside sources revealed.