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A Railway Strike Scheduled To Be Launched Tonight (27)

Engine Drivers and Rail Guards are due

to launch a strike with effect from midnight tonight (27)it has been reported.

A crisis occurred when taking disciplinary action against workers attached to Sri Lanka Railways Department has lead to this strike it has been revealed.

Police Recovered A Stock Of T-56 Firearm Bullets Hidden Under Roots Of A Tree

Police have recovered a stock of 100 T-

56 automatic firearm bullets hidden  under  roots of a Kumbuk Tree at Hindogama area in Anuradhapura last Monday evening(25).

Police believe an organized crime group may have hidden these bullets.

Health Minister Banned A Stock Of 400 Cancer Injection Vials Purchased By Spending A Higher Price

Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratna

has banned  a stock of 400 Breast Cancer Injection vials purchased from A multi national drug company  incurring a loss of Rs.50 million to the government according to the Ministry Of Health.

The stock of injection vials had been purchased by state owned State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) by spending Rs.550,000 per vial although there are similar Injection vials available in the local market with lower prices than this  the Ministry has stressed.

The tender was awarded to the multi National Drug Company which supplied the above Injection vials after calling tenders in two occassions it has been revealed.

The Drug Company which provided these injection vials had earlier supplied  Injection vials for Breast cancer  for Rs.285,000 per vial which replaced by a Russian injection vial later purchased for lower price then that.

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President Has Appointed A Four Member Committe To Probe On Electricity Crisis

President Maithripala Sirisena has

yesterday (26)appointed a four member Comiittee headed by Minister of Power Ravi Karunanayake to probe on electricity crisis which lead to urgent power cuts in the country.

The Committe is comprising of four parliamentarians.

Meanwhile if the dry weather conditions in hydrocatchment areas in the central hills continues after end of April the present electricity crisis will become worsen according to Ceylon Electricity Board.

Now the daily Electricity demand has been imcreased to 47 Giga watt hours the Board has annoumced.

Minister Karunanayake has said a soultion for the electricity crisis will be provided in parliament  on 29 th of March .

Two Day Nurses Sick Note Campaign Proved As A Flop As Majority Of Nurses Reported To.Work Yesterday(26)

As the majority of Government Hospital

Nurses have refused to report sick leave ,The two day Island wide Sick leave campaign launched by Public Services Nurses Union(PSNU) had become a flop yesterday (26).

Majority of nurses in Government Hospitals had reported to work yesterday according to  sources.Due to this situation hospital services functioned smoothly without any difficulty it has been reported..

PSNU has laumched this sick note campaign by demanding solutions for eight of their service demands including providing Rs.10,000 Accident allowance to every nurse and increasing nurses uniform allowance .

However Government Nursing Officers Union lead by Saman Ratnapriya which has the membership of majority of nurses in the country has stated 80 percent of Nurses had been reported to work yesterday and only around 20 percent had been reported sick leave .

Earlier the Union has announced it will not participated in the sick note campaign  .

However Public Services Nurses Union leader Venerable Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero has announced that the sick note campaign laumched by his union.is very successful.The trade union action will continue today (27)as well  he has stressed .

The nursed imvolved in the two day sick note campaign will return to work 7 a.m tomorrow(28) Muruththettuwe Theto.

Meanwhile Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne has said yesterday that the two day sick note campaign of nurses is an unfair one and the Thero who lead the PSNU has acted against the norms and ethics of a Buddhist monk by launching this trade union action.