


Last week’s heavy PC polls defeat at Sabaragamuwa and
North Central Provinces has driven a group of UNP MPs to urge UNP
leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to quit the leadership.
Lakshman Seneviratne, Johnston Fernando, Thalatha Atukorale and Indika
Bandara have asked Wickremesinghe to hand over the leadership to UNP
Chairman Rukman Senanayake. Wickremesinghe has said he would consider
their request.
Well informed sources said that the MPs had had consultations with
several ...

Food poisoning downs 120
soldiers
Food poisoning was reported in the
Dehiattakandiya Army training camp yesterday and 120 soldiers rushed
to the Polonnaruwa and Dehiattakandiya hospitals for treatment were
declared out of danger, Army spokesman Brig Udaya Nanayakkara said.
IGP appoints special team
to probe attack on Dr. John Pulle
Inspector General of Police Jayantha Wickremaratne
has appointed a special team, headed by Kuliyapitiya SP Ranjith
Padmasiri to inquire into the assault on UNP Anuradhapura District
Organiser Dr. John Pulle and setting fire to ...


