A 38 year old person has died and three others including two females had fallen sick and hospitalized after consuming expensive liquor at a Birthday party held in a four storiedbuilding at Ethulkotte in Kotte area today (10).
Welikada Police are conducting an Inquiry over the incident and the Magistrate inquiry was conducted in this regard .
The International Cricket Council (ICC)has imposed a temporary ban on Sri Lanka over breach of rules it has been announced this evening (10).
ICC has today announced that Sri Lanka has been banned from participating all formats of Cricket with immediatte effect a day after Sri Lanka's Parliament unanimously approved a resolution requesting the corrupt Management of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board to leave office.
Meanwhile The Cricket website Cric info has been reported that the ICC has Banned Sri Lanka from participating all formats,of Cricket according to the suggestion made by the president of Sri Lanka Cricket Shammi Silva who is being charged over freaud and corruption .
Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe had sacked the Cricket Board management recently over corruption charges levelled against them by the Auditor General and the poor performance of Sri Lanka's National Cricket team in the ongoing ICC Men's World Cup.
Activities of the Postal department and attached post offices are being crippled due to the ongoing strike launched by the Postal workers since yesterday (08) according to the Postal unons.
Due to the strike launched by around 27,000 postal workers attached to the Postal department demanding to stop the selling of historical post offices in Kandy and Nuwara eliya,to the private sector ,had crippled the activitis of the Central mail exchange ,653 post offices and 3410 sub post offices islandwide according to the Joint Postal trade unions front
Meanwhile government had declared the Postal service as an essential service and cancelled the leave of all postal workers..
Transport activities of the Colombo-Badulla upcountry Railway line between kinigama and Hiloya areas had been disrupted yesterday (08)due to a falling of a mango tree across the railway line. .
The Mango tree had fallen as a result of the adverse weather conditions prevailing in at present it has been reported .The railway workers attached to the Bandarawela Railway station had removed the fallen tree from the railway track .
The Board of Directors had decided to remove the Chief executive officer of the National Medicinal Regulatory Authority (NMRA) Dr.Vijith Gunasekare from his post with immediatte effect due to.his involvement on importing sub standard drugs to Sri Lnka the Health Ministry has announced .
The former Chief Executive Officer of the NMRA Dr.Gunasekare has been recalled to the setvice of Health Ministry according to the Health Ministry Secretary Janaka Sri Chandragupta .New Health Minister Dr.Ramesh Pathirune had appointed Dr.Ananda,Wijewikrama as the new Chairman of NMRA recently.
The 22 member Cabinet of the new government which was appointed yesterday (18) had assumed duties in the respective Ministries today (19) i...
