Professor Carlo Fonsrka Has Pledged His Support To The Anti SAITM Student Campaign

Former president of the Sri Lanka Medical Council Professor Carlo Fonseka has arrived at Lipton Circus roundabout to support a group of medical/university students protesting since yesterday(13)against the firing of water cannons towards  a student group staged a satyagra campaign at the circus on last Sunday (23).

Addressing the students Professor Carlo Fonseka has said that only solution for the current student unrest is abolishing the Private Medical Collage in Malabe .

Ministry Of Health To Implement WHO Dengue Action Plan

Ministry of Health has decided to implement the

action plan of World Health Organization (WHO) on reducing the number of Dengue patients by 50% within 04 week period, Island wide for three days from this Thursday (27).

The action plan prepared and handed over to the Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne by the visiting WHO experts had mainly suggested to empower the public on removing water collected items and places in their premises in view of reduce the spreading of Dengue .

The WHO team met with the Health Minister Dr.Senaratne and Health Ministry officials yesterday (24)and discuss on the suggestions included in the Dengue action plan.

At the meeting Minister has instructed the Health Ministry officials and WHO experts to implement the WHO Action plan on dengue in Sri Lanka.

Around Rs.105,000 Dengue patients have been reported throughout the Island from January this year up to now and 301 died due to the disease according to the National Dengue Control Unit.

Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake To Appear Before Bond Commission

Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has  received summons to  appear before the Bond Commission inquiring on the Bond Scam of Central Bank ,tomorrow(26) according to the sources.

Minister Karunanayake is earlier due to appear before the commission today(25) regarding an allegations leveled against him on the link he had with the main suspect of the Central Bnnk Bond scam Arjun Aloysias .However due to the Cabinet meeting held today he has informed the Commission through an attorney that he will not able to appear before the Commission today.

It has been revealed that Minister Karunanayake has received a luxury apartment when he was the finance minister  from Arjun Aloysias who is the director of Perpetual treasuries ,after the Bond scam occurred  for  leasing .

The Bond Commission is due to question Minister's involvement on the Bond scam it has been reported.

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Ceylon Petroleum Workers On Strike - Indian Oil Company To Distribute Enough Fuel To The Public

Although the Fuel filling stations belonging to Ceylon Petroleum Corporation closed due to the ongoing island wide continuous strike of Petroleum workers organized by Petroleum Trade Unions Collective,202 Indian Oil Company (IOC) Fuel  filling stations in the country are currently distributing fuel to the public without a shortage it has been reported.

According to the Indian Oil Company officials the Company had taken steps to bring Fuel stored in it's Fuel stores in Trincomalee to distribute in Colombo .

A long queues have been seen in front of IOC Filling stations due to this situation.

However it has been revealed that most of the Fuel filling Stations belonging to Ceylon Petroleum Corporation have closed due to the stock of fuel they stored have already finished.This situation occurred as the Petroleum Unions which commenced the strike had stated yesterday that a fuel shortage might be appeared due to the strike today and as a result  some motorists have purchased liters of Fuel more than the required amount to face the fuel shortage.

The Petroleum Trade Unions Collective had launched the strike since midnight last night by demanding solutions for several demands including preventing the handing over of Oil Tanks in Trincomalee to India based on leasing system.

The Former DIG Lalith Jayasinghe Who Helped The Main Suspect Of Rape And Murder Of Jaffna School Girl Further Remanded

The imprisoned former Deputy Inspector General Of Police(DIG) in charge of Central Province Lalith Jayasinghe who was interdicted over supporting the main suspect of the rape and murder of Jaffna school girl Vidya ,Swiss Kumar to escape from police custody further remanded until 08th of August by the Kayts Magistrate today(25).

Kayts Magistrate M.Riyal has further remanded the former DIG Jayasinghe after being produced before the court today.