Air Port Customs Officers Have Detained Three Suspects With 400 Cigarrette Cartons While Attempting To Smuggle Them To The Country

Three Persons including two females and a male were detained  by the Sri Lanka  Customs Officers early hours yesterday(24)at the Katunayake Bandaranaike International Air Port  while attempting to smuggle 400 Cigarette Cartons to the country valued around Rs
2.8 million.

During the inspection customs officers had recovered 400 cartons of cigarettes packed with  80,000 sticks in the bags of the suspects .

Customs Officers are conducting further Investigations on the incident.

No Sri Lankan Has Been Affected Due To The Earthquake Occurred In Italy

No Sri Lankan has been affected due to the strong earthquake meassuring as 6.2 in the Richter Scale occurred in Central Italy today (24)according to the Sri Lankan High Commission in Italy.

However the Sri Lankan High Commission officials are keep in touch with the  local authorities regarding the situation as there are a large number of Sri Lankans lives there Sri Lankan Ambassador To Italy Daya Palpola has stated..

Due to the earthquake occurred  in Norcia  area in Italy around 120 persons were killed and more than 1000 persons displaced it has been reported.

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Government Will Consider The Proposals To Devolve The Powers To The Provinces-Minister Mano Ganeshan

The Minister Of National Languages,Coexistence and Dialogue Mano Ganeshan has stated that the government will consider the proposals to devolve the powers to the provinces.

Addressing a launching ceremony of the website for The Bilingual and Trilingual Languages Resources Pool held in Colombo the Minister has stressed that the implementation of the language policy which addressing the language related issues and implementing it in a real time basis will be solving more than half of the ethnic issues.

Cabinet Has Approved A Proposal To Strengthen The Coordinating Secretariat For Reconcilation Mechanisms

Cabinet has yesterday (23)approved a proposal submitted by Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe to strengthen the coordinating Secretariat for reconciliation mechanisms.

Accordingly cabinet has approved the proposal made by prime minister to provide necessary funds and human resources for the Secretariat.

The secretariat was established in 2015 as per a decision taken by the cabinet to implement decisions ,processes and programmes related to reconciliation productively.

It is headed by Mano Thiththawella and judicial mechanism and office of reparations ,The Office Of Missing Persons,Truth,Justice,Reconciliation and non recurrence commission will be functioned under the Secretariat.

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Cabinet Approved To Set Up A National Information Center-Cabinet Spokesman

The Cabinet has approved a proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe to establish a National Information Center to coordinate the official information and functioned as the government's official media spokesman when providing official information according to the Cabinet Spokesman and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Media Gayantha Karunathilake.

As a part of the Right To Information Act recently approved by the Parliament government has planned to collect public views for policy making and to issue accurate and trustworthy official information of the government to print and electronic media through this National Information Center  the Cabinet Spokesman has stated during today's Cabinet Press Briefing.

Activities of   Government Information Department will not be influenced through this Center he has further added.