US GOVERNMENT ORDERS FIRST FEDERAL EXECUTIONS SINCE 2003

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-

canada-49118134

NEVER GIVING UP ,ENDLESS LOVE ,MATCHLESS CARE AND TRUSTWORTHY BOND INDICATE THE TRUE SPIRIT OF BEST FRIENDSHIP

Sixteen Health Catagaries To Launch A One Day Token Strike On 08th Of August

Sixteen Health catagories  including

Nurses ,Professions For Suppplamentary  To Medicine (PSM's) and Paramedical officers are scheduled to be launched an Island Wide one day token strike on 08th of August demanding solutions for 09 of their service demands according to the president of Health Professional Services Joint Confederation  Saman Ratnapriya .

If the Health Authorities fail to provide solutions  for the demands during the strike The Joint Confederaction will launch an Island Wide Continuous Strike within two weeks after the one day strike he has stressed .

The Joint Confederation demanding solutions for longstanding 09 Service demands including Promotions ,Salary and recruitment issues Ratnapriya has stressed.

Addressing the press briefing held at Government Pharmacist Union office in Punchi Borella, Colombo last morning (25)Saman Ratnapriya has told that the current Health Ministry Secretary Wasantha Perera has not given any meeting to their unions to discuss on these demands. She is not willing to giving discussions to the trade unions unlike previous Health Secretaries he has revealed.

EUROPEAN HEATWAVE IN PICTURES

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-

europe-49098263

LIFE QUOTES

GOLDEN MELODIES

STF Commander Senior DIG M. R. Lathif Told He Was Not Called For The Security Council Meetings Prior To Easter Sunday Attacks

Commander of the Special Police Task Force (STF) Deputy Inspector General Of Police  (DIG) M.R Lathif has today announced

(25)revealed that he was not called for the security council meetings held  prior to the Easter Sunday attacks by giving evidence before the Parliamentary Select Committee probing  on Easter Sunday attacks met at Parliamentary Complex today  (25).

STF Commander Lathif has also told if he has received an information regarding the Easter Sunday attacks prior to it  he would have taken every possible step to prevent it . However he has received an invitation for the Security council meetings only after the attacks STF Commander has stressed.

"I have  not received the Intelligence report on Either Thowheed Jamaath Extremist Organization or its leader Mohommad Zahran .However I have received details on a planned attack against Indian High Commission and as a result tightened the security in the commission ' he has stressed