Payments had been made to a Ship carrying 36,000 Metric tones of Octane-92 Petrol anchored at the Colombo Harbor according to the Ministry Of Power and Energy .
Accordingly unloading of the Petrol stocks from the ship had begun today .However another two Diesel ships and a Petrol ship are being anchored at the Colombo harbor further due to not making payments for them it has been reported.
The Public Utilities Commission had given permission to the Ceylon Electricity Board(CEB) to implement two hours and twenty minutes long island wide power cut for tomorrow (29) due to the fuel shortage faced by CEB to generate power.
Accordingly one hour long power cut will be implemented in many areas during the day time and one hour and twenty minutes long power cut during the night
The Officers attached to the Anti narcotic division of the Sri Lanka Customs had today (28) arrested a 43-year-old Ugandan national who had arrived in Sri Lanka after swallowing 17 Cocaine pills ,at the Katunayake International Airport.
The suspect who had arrived in Katunayake Airport from Qatar was admitted to the hospital where the Cocaine pills he had swallowed were taken out from his stomach.The market value of the Cocaine pills recovered from the suspect is estimated as Rs.12 million
The Anti Narcotic Control Division of the Sri Lanka customs had handed over the suspect to the Police Anti Narcotic Bureau for further investigations.
