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Restriction Of Running Private Buses On New Year Day-President Lanka Private Bus Owners Association

Due to the Sinhala and Tamil New Year which falls on next Tuesday(14) majority of the Private Buses will not run from 13th Of April (Old New Year Day) to 15th of April  as usual according to the President of Lanka Private Bus Owners Association Gamunu Wijeratne.

However Private Buses will run as usual on both Saturday and Sunday he has said.

Tamil National Alliance Leader Requested The Speaker To Appoint Him As The Opposition Leader

The leader of the Sri Lanka's main Tamil Opposition Party the Tamil National Alliance(TNA) R.Sampanthan has today(10) handedover a letter to the speaker chamal rajapakshe claiming the confused opposition leader post is entitled to his party as it's having the largest Parliamentarian Group in the opposition.

However a group of MP'S have been reported as signed a petition and handed over to the speaker few days back by claiming MP Dinesh Gunewardena who is  representing the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) should be appointed as the new opposition leader.

The speaker has already requested the General Secretary of  UPFA MP Susil Premajayanthe to take a decision on the opposition leader's post as  large number of MP'S representing UPFA are there in the opposition.As a response the  General Secretary has informed the speaker that a decision regarding that will be taken after the next week's Sinhala And Tamil New Year Festival..

MP representing UPFA ,Nimal Siripala De Silva is currently functioning as the opposition leader and the confusion on the post arisen after 26 UPFA MP's mainly from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party have been accepted Ministerial Posts in the new government.

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Police Inspector And A Constable Attach To Ahungalla Police Got Remanded For Accepting A Bribe

A Police Inspector and a Constable attach to Ahungalla(Southern Province) Police have been arrested and  remanded until 21st of April due to taken a Rs.5000 bribe from a person .

The Officers of the Bribery Commission have yesterday (08) arrested the said Police Inspector and the Constable while accepting the bribe .After produced before the Balapitiya Magistrate Court they were ordered to remand until 21st of April.

Supreme Court Confirmed 19Th Amendment Is Consistent With Constituiton -Speaker

The Speaker Chamal Rajapakshe has today(09) informed the Parliament that Supreme Court has confirmed proposed 19th Amendment is consistent with the constitution and certain  sections in the Amendment required a referendum to approve .

As soon as the speaker informed the Supreme Court's decision on 19th Amendment Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinha has told the Parliament that the government will omit the sections which require a referendum.

The Supreme Court gave it's decision after examining 19 petitions filed against the 19th Amendment.

Meanwhile the  President Maithripala Sirisena  has announced today that the draft bill on 19th Amendment will be presented to the Parliament on 20th of April and soon after it got passed the Parliament will be dissolved to hold  a fresh general elections.However the main  opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) has stated that they will  backing  the government to pass the draft bill only if the new electoral reforms included in the bill.The new general elections should be held under a new electoral system the SLFP has stated.