EMANTHI-NEWSBLOG: May 16, 2022

Monday, May 16, 2022

අවංක ප්‍රේමයක් /සෙනහසක් කිසි දින ප්‍රදර්ශනයක් නොවනවාක් මෙන්ම එහි කල් ඉකුත් වීමක්ද නොපවතී (උපුටා ගැනීමකි )

Attorney General Has Ordered Officials To Arrest 22 MP's/ Social Activists Over Assaulting Protesters

Attorney General Sanjay Rajarathnam has today (16) ordered the Inspector General Of Police (IGP) and Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to arrest the 22 persons including MP's who are responsible for assaulting protesters at Go Gota home and Myna Gohome villages last Monday(09) and produce them before court .

Former Ministers Johnston fernando ,Sanath Nishntha and Deputy Inspector General Of Police (DIG) Deshbandu Thennakoon are among those who are ordered to arrest it has been reported .However Court has earlier banned former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakshe from going abroad over involved in attacking the protesters ,

Two Ships Carrying Gas Due To Be Arrives In The Country Tomorrow (17 ) And Day After

Two ships carrying stocks of Gas are scheduled to be arrived in the country tomorrow (17) and the day after (18) according to the Litro Gas Company ,

Accordingly a ship carrying 3700 metric tones of Gas is scheduled to be arrived in the island tomorrow and a payment of US Dollars 7 million is due to be payed for those two ships by tomorrow the chairman of the Litro Gas company Vijitha Herath has stated .

From Wednesday 80,000 Gas cylinders per day are scheduled to be distributed among consumers daily he has stated ,

CEYPETCO Has Petrol Sufficient For A Day-Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) only has a stock of Petrol sufficient for a day at present Newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe has stated today (16) .

Addressing the nation regarding current economic crisis faced by the nation Prime Minister Wikramasinghe has stressed that currently diesel is out of stock in the country ,But from today (16) public will get some concession on that ."Two ships carrying stocks of Diesel are scheduled to be arrived in the country on 18th of May and 01st of June under the Indian credit line ,Also another two ships carrying stocks of petrol are scheduled to be arrived on 18th of May and 29th of May ,Due to the fuel shortage there might be power cuts long as 15 hours in future " he has stated .

Millions Of Buddhists Celebrated Vesak Yesterday (15)

North Korea: More than a million Covid cases feared

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Vesak Celebrations At Galle Face Protest Site

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අවංකව ප්‍රේමය පුදන සිත්වලට එකිනෙකාගේ ඇසුර අප්‍රමාණ සතුටක් ගෙන දෙයි (උපුටා ගැනීමකි )

SLFP Had Decided To Support New Premier

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP ) Which earlier decided to function as an Independent group now decided to support Prime Minister Ranil Wikramaisnghe to form a new government the Chairman of SLFP Former President Maithripala Sirisena had informed the Prime Minister .

Earlier SLFP had decided not to support the new Prime Minister ,But yesterday (15) had stated it will support the Prime Minster behalf of the country .Accordingly 14 SLFP Members who had withdrawn from the previous government of Ex premier Mahinda Rajapakshe will join the present government .Some of these SLFP MP's will be received Cabinet Portfolios as well it has been reported ,

Around 80 Percent Of Private Buses Not Engaged In Transportation Work -Bus Unions

Around 80 percent of Public Buses were removed from transportation work due to the non availability of fuel according to the Private Bus Unions .

Diesel shortage had caused this problem the Unions had revealed ,

Island Wide Curfew To Be Re Imposed At 8 P,m Tonight (16)

The Island Wide Curfew that had been lifted last morning is scheduled to be re imposed at 8 p.m tonight (16)( the President's Media Division had announced .