Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake To Appear Before Bond Commission

Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has  received summons to  appear before the Bond Commission inquiring on the Bond Scam of Central Bank ,tomorrow(26) according to the sources.

Minister Karunanayake is earlier due to appear before the commission today(25) regarding an allegations leveled against him on the link he had with the main suspect of the Central Bnnk Bond scam Arjun Aloysias .However due to the Cabinet meeting held today he has informed the Commission through an attorney that he will not able to appear before the Commission today.

It has been revealed that Minister Karunanayake has received a luxury apartment when he was the finance minister  from Arjun Aloysias who is the director of Perpetual treasuries ,after the Bond scam occurred  for  leasing .

The Bond Commission is due to question Minister's involvement on the Bond scam it has been reported.

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Ceylon Petroleum Workers On Strike - Indian Oil Company To Distribute Enough Fuel To The Public

Although the Fuel filling stations belonging to Ceylon Petroleum Corporation closed due to the ongoing island wide continuous strike of Petroleum workers organized by Petroleum Trade Unions Collective,202 Indian Oil Company (IOC) Fuel  filling stations in the country are currently distributing fuel to the public without a shortage it has been reported.

According to the Indian Oil Company officials the Company had taken steps to bring Fuel stored in it's Fuel stores in Trincomalee to distribute in Colombo .

A long queues have been seen in front of IOC Filling stations due to this situation.

However it has been revealed that most of the Fuel filling Stations belonging to Ceylon Petroleum Corporation have closed due to the stock of fuel they stored have already finished.This situation occurred as the Petroleum Unions which commenced the strike had stated yesterday that a fuel shortage might be appeared due to the strike today and as a result  some motorists have purchased liters of Fuel more than the required amount to face the fuel shortage.

The Petroleum Trade Unions Collective had launched the strike since midnight last night by demanding solutions for several demands including preventing the handing over of Oil Tanks in Trincomalee to India based on leasing system.

The Former DIG Lalith Jayasinghe Who Helped The Main Suspect Of Rape And Murder Of Jaffna School Girl Further Remanded

The imprisoned former Deputy Inspector General Of Police(DIG) in charge of Central Province Lalith Jayasinghe who was interdicted over supporting the main suspect of the rape and murder of Jaffna school girl Vidya ,Swiss Kumar to escape from police custody further remanded until 08th of August by the Kayts Magistrate today(25).

Kayts Magistrate M.Riyal has further remanded the former DIG Jayasinghe after being produced before the court today.

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One Day Token Strike Launched By GMOA Had Called Off

The one day token strike launched by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) since this morning(25) had called off this noon after the talks held between  Minister of law ,order and Southern Development Sagala Ratnayake and GMOA it has been reported.

According to the GMOA as the Minister Sagala Ratnayake had instructed the Inspector General Of Police Pujith Jayasundare to prepare a report and handed over to him on the white van arrived to arrest the convener of the Medical Faculty Students Action Committee Ryan Jayathilake and promised  to inform the Parliament on the white van incident and apologize on that ,one day token strike had called off.

Meanwhile due to the strike launched by GMOA in government hospitals since 8 a.m this morning  .only a section of OPD Clinics in government hospitals affected as majority of the doctors in OPD Clinics have reported to work .Due to this situation the GMOA Strike is not effective as in earlier days Hospital sources have stated.