Army Commander General Shavendre De Silva is scheduled to be appointed as the Chief of Staff of Defense with effect from 01st of June .
General De Silva is scheduled to be resigned from the Army Commander Post to resume duties as Chief Of Defense of Staff it has been reported ,
Major General Vikum Liyanage who is the acting Chief of Defense Of Staff is scheduled to be appointed as the new Army Commander with effect from 091st of June .
President Gotabaya Rajapakshe had today (23) appointed a Cabinet Spokesman and three Co Cabinet spokesmen of the New Cabinet ,
Accordingly Minister Of Media Bandula Gunawardane had been appointed as the New Cabinet Spokesman and Ministers Harin Fernando ,Mansuha Nanayakkara and Mahinda Amaraweera had been appointed as Co- Cabinet spokesemen .
Due to the fuel crisis prevails in the island Ministry of Public Administration is due to issue a special circler for state sector tomorrow (24)giving special powers to the heads of the institutions to call only essential employees to the work .
Accordance to this new circular heads of the State Institutions can only call an essential employees to work with effect from tomorrow (24).
The draft of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution which proposed to curtail the powers of Executive Presidency was submitted to the Cabinet today (23) by the Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapkshe .
The draft bill is seeking to reintroduce the features contains in 19th amendment which gives more powers to the Prime Minister and the Parliament ,However the draft bill retains the powers vested to President on increasing the number of judges to the high courts and President's power to dissolve the parliament only after two and half years .
The Cabinet is scheduled to be considered the proposed Amendment to the Constitution by next week .
The 22 member Cabinet of the new government which was appointed yesterday (18) had assumed duties in the respective Ministries today (19) i...
