Category: LOCAL

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The President’s Media Division (PMD) on Thursday (05) announced that the Secretary to the President Austin Fernando has resigned from his position.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Foreign liquor, hashish and ganja worth over Rs. 10 million was taken into custody by the Orugodawatta Customs last night.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –ACTIVISTS have vowed to continue staging protests to seek the release of 11 Sri Lankan refugees awaiting de­­por­­tation in Johor, Malaysia Nan­ban reported.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Cabinet approval was granted this week to obtain a Japanese Yen 100 billion loan to complete the Section 3 of the Central Expressway (CEP). Section 3 consists of 32.5km from Pothuhera to Galagedara and the Cabinet paper noted that it had been arranged as an Engineering Procurement Contract (EPC) of Japanese contractors under Japanese banks’ financing.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said disciplinary measures will be taken against the officers who had influenced the students and teachers not to go to schools Wednesday (04).

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) were signed recently between the Office for National Unity & Reconciliation (ONUR) and 22 selected Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) to expand the reach of grass root level national unity and reconciliation related projects island-wide.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Upon information disseminated by the Galle Harbour Police about 5.00 PM on Tuesday (03) to the Headquarters of Southern Naval Command, of an incident of a girl of Bonita Children’s Home in Rumassala being accidentally slipped off a nearby cliff, a group of Naval personnel belonging to the Navy’s Special Boat Squadron and Diving Unit were engaged in rescue efforts.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Heavy rains across the country had resulted in increasing Hydro Power generation by 87.6% to 650 GWh during the first quarter of the year 2018 compared to a year earlier, the latest government data highlights.