Authorities Denied Rumours On Sealing Health Ministry

Government Information Department

has today (29) denied the rumours spreads saying  Ministry Of Health ,Nutrition and Indeginous Medicine had been sealed by the Presidential Investigations Unit  over a corruption scandal.

The Ministry Is functioning as usual the Department has said.

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Kandy High Court Ordered To Release Six Suspects Including Mahason Balakaya Leader On Bail

Kandy High Court has today

(29)ordered to release the six suspects including the leader of "Mahasone Balakaya "who had been arrested and remanded over the tense situation occurred in Theldeniya, Kandy last March .

Accordingly the suspects had been ordered to release on cash bail of Rs.25,000 each and two surety bails of Rs.500,000 each .

They are due to be released on bail after producing before the Theldeniya Magistrate Court.

Leftist JVP Has Requested The Speaker To Convene The Parliament

The Leftist Janatha Wimukthi

Peramuna (JVP) had requested the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya To convene the Parliament as soon as possible to conduct a debate on current political enviornment of the country .

In a letter sent to the Speaker Jayasuriya with signatures of all six MP's representing JVP ,The party says current political conflict should be solved through the Parliamentary democracy not through the Constitution. 

US Embassy Officials Say They Were Surprised To See The Current Political Conflict In Sri Lanka

Acting United States Ambassador to Sri

Lanka Robert Hilton and the head of the Political Division in United States Embassy of Sri Lanka Anthony. R have revealed during their meeting with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today (29) that they were  surprised to see the situation in Sri Lanka occurred after the removal of Prime Minister unconstitutionaly .

US Government is strictly concerned on the latest developments in Sri Lanka and the government expects that the Sri Lankan government will find a solution for the current conflict through Parliamentary Democracy the US Embassy officials say during the meeting with speaker at Parliament .

Artists For Democracy Opposed The Removing Of Premier Wikramasinghe From His Post Unconstitutionlly

 Artists for Democracy representing

local Artists In many fields had expressed  their opposition to the president's decision of Removing  Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe from his post and appointing Former President Mahinda Rajapakshe as the New Premier unconstitutionaly .

Due to this situation country had collapsed and going backwards  Artists had stressed during a press briefing held in Colombo today (29).

President should convene the Parliament to solve this problem and restore democracy in the country the ArtIsts  for Democracy has stated.

Artists who had expressed their views during the press briefing said that it's hard to believe how a president who came to power against Dictatorship appointed a new prime minister by violating the Constitution.