Due to the Sinhala /Hindu New year dawns today(13) 917 Prison inmates will be recieved special state pardon this morning according to the Prisons Department.
Seven persons were injured and hospitalized after the Van they were travelling in toppled over to a precipice at Balangoda-Hatton road on Balangoda-Pinnawala area yesterday(12)The injured were hospitalized after the incident it has been reported.
The injured were returning home in Weeraketiya area after visiting Sripada piligrimage at the time of the incident accordingto the Pinnawala Police.
Cabinet had approved a proposal which allows the Sri Lankan students to pursue medical degrees(MBBS) at the General Sir John Kotalawala Defense University.Accordingly the local students can enroll in the Medical degree programme on a payment basis.
Admission for this Medical degree programme will be based on a combination of the A level Z score and other relevent Qualifications according to the Department of Government Information.
Sri Lanka Navy have arrested 08 Persons Over the illegal harvesting of Sea Cucumber during a Search operation carried out in the sea and beach areas of Nagar Kovil in Kilinochchi district on last Tuesday(09).
Navy had also taken into custody around 540 illegally harvested cucumbers during the raid.
Muslim Community in Sri Lanka is Celebrating the Ramadan Festival today(10) after the sighting of the Crescent for the Month of Shawwal .
The Colombo Grand Mosque has announced the Ramadan Festival day last night(09).
Former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and 07 other Health sector officials who were remanded over the importing of Substandard Human Immunoglobulin Injection vials for the Government Hospitals have been re remanded by thr Maigakande Magistrate Court lastWednesday (08).
The accused former Health Minister was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on 02 nd of February After being questioned over 10 hours regarding the importing of substandard injection vials .
The newly constructed Flyover bridge at Slave Island which is connected to Justice Akbar Road and Uttarankanda Road has been opened by the President Ranil Wikramasinghe yesterday(18).
The second phase of the Slave island flyover bridge project is being scheduled to be completed in September .This flyover bridge wil ease the road traffic caused by the Railway crosding in the Busy commercial city of Slave Island which has wasted three hours daily in the past according to the officials.
Tsunami memories:What happened in Paraliya in 2004.
