The Ministry of Agriculture had yesterday(28) received 13, 000 tones of Urea fertilizer provided under the Concessionary Loan scheme of US dollars 110 million provided by the World Bank .
Ministey has decided to provide 50 kilo gramme bag of Urea received under the World bank project to the farners for Rs.10,000 each it has been announced
Sri lankan paddy farmers need nearly 150,000 tones of Urea fertilizer to use in their paddy fields for the Maha season it has been revealed.
The Public Utilities Commission (PUS) had yesterday (28) given permission to implement a one hour long power cut during the weekend and two hour long power cut on next Monday (31) in the 20 zones of the island A to W .
Accordingly the one hour power cut during the weekend will be implemented during 5.30 p.m to 8.30 p.m and the two hour long power cut scheduled for next Monday will be implemented one hour during the day time and one hour in the night .
Due to the foreign travel ban imposed on him over two cases pending in Court ,Former MP and Actor Ranjan Ramanayke was turned away by the Immigration and Emigration officials at the Katunayake ,Bandaranaike International Airport when he arrived at the Airport to fly to Unites states for a concert last night (27).
The Actor turned politician Ramanayake was due to flying to Qatar last night from the Qatar Airways flight and from there to United states .Immigration and Emigration officials had prevented him from traveling oversees due to the foreign travel ban it has been reported.
A Person was killed and his 08 year old son had been critically injured and hospitalized after the Motorcycle they were traveling in colliding with a Train traveling to Beliatta area (Southern Province) at the Railway crossing in Dharmarama ,Uyanwatte ,Matara District last morning (27).
The 50 year old deceased has died in the spot and his 08 year old son had been transferred from Matara Hospital to Karapitiya Teaching Hospital for further treatment ,The deceased was a resident of Weragampita in Matrara district ,
Due to the essential renovation work of the Colombo Sewage management programme water supply to seven divisions in the Colombo District will be halted for 12 hours from 10 p.m tonight (28) until 10 a.m tomorrow morning (29) according to the National Water supplies and drainage board.
Accordingly the 12 hour water cut will be implemented in Colombo -02,03,04,05,07,08 and 10 divisions the Board has announced .
The 22 member Cabinet of the new government which was appointed yesterday (18) had assumed duties in the respective Ministries today (19) i...
