


No
confidence motion moved against Ranil
Adjourned evening meet on the issue postponed
A stormy UNP Parliamentary Group meeting, at which Lakshman
Seneviratne MP, moved a verbal No Confidence motion against UNP leader
Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday morning, was adjourned for the evening,
but it was postponed later in the day.
At the time of going to press, Wickremesinghe was presiding over a
meeting at Cambridge Terrace attended by some senior UNPers, informed
sources told The Island.

East gets bumper
paddy harvest
Paddy farmers of the East enjoyed a
bountiful Maha harvest contributing 35 per cent to the country’s
production. Only the Ampara District remains to be harvested, Eastern
Provincial Minister of Agriculture Dr. Thuraiappah Navaratnarajah said
yesterday.

Drunk on
nationalist spirit
Politicians seem to be getting madder by the
week. No sooner do we recover ...

Counting
votes at polling station
The proposal of the Elections Commissioner to
hold the count at the polling booth ...

ICC confirms
SA for Champions Trophy
The International Cricket Council confirmed
Monday that South Africa will host this ...
