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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

GOLDEN MELODIES

A Section Of The Road In Balangoda Had Sunk

A section of the Road near the 144 th

kilo meter post at Badulla-Kirindigala area of Colombo -Badulla Road had sunk today (08)as a result of the heavy showers prevailed in Balangoda area .

As a result a crater around eight feet had been created in the sunken area it has been revealed .Transport activities of the road is being disrupted due to the incident .

Ballot Paper To Be 2.2 Feet High As 35 Cintestents Contesting For The Presidential Election

The size of the Ballot paper scheduled

to be used for the forthcoming Presidential Election is 24 inches more in height than the previous ones according to the National Election Commission .

Accordingly the size of the new Ballot paper scheduled to print is 2.2 feet in height .as there are 35 Candidates contesting in the election compared to the few contestents contested in previous elections .The previous ballot paper is around 2 inches high it has been revealed .

The module Ballot paper has been printed by the Government printer and hamded over to the President of the National Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya it has been revealed.

Due to the number of contestents in this years Presidential Election the number of representatives allowed to be there in a polliting station has been increased to 70 and the number of representatives allowed to be there in a counting center had been increased to 170 .
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Narional Elections Commission is due to either prepare Ballot boxes again or to import new plastic ballot boxes for the presidential Election it has been stated .

OIC 's Of Crimes And Admimistration Units Of Fort Police Interdicted Over An Unconfirmed Letter Sent To The Tourist Hotels On An Attack

Police Department has today

(08)interdicted the OIC Of Criminal Invesrigations Unit of the Colombo Fort Police and the OIC of Administration Unit of the same police had been intrdicted over sending letters to Tourist Hotels with an unconfirmed information saying there's a mass attack scheduled to occur similar to the recent Easter sunday attack .

The special investigations Unit of the Police headquarters had conducted an inquiry over the letter which was sent to the Hotels on 02nd of October and found that the letter was baseless the Police Media Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekare has stressed .

The letter which was sent to 16 Tourist Hotels in Colombo also circulated in the social media recently .The controversial letter has instructed the Hotel Administrators to check all the foreign tourists entering Hotels as a safety meassure it has been revealed .