A 15 Year old boy has drowned whilst bathing in sea area of Galle face in Colombo today(08) according to the Colombo Fort Police .
The victim had been drifted away due to the rough sea waves when he was bathing with another three boys and he has died after being admitted to the Colombo National Hospital by the Police life saving guards who had saved him.The deceased was a resident of Colombo-12 it has been reported.
To oppose the increased Electricity tariffs all the temples in the island as well as churches belonging to the Colombo Archbishop will switch off the lights and kept in darkness from 6 p.m to 10 p.m tomorrow eve (09) according to the religious clergy .
Not only the general public the religious places too are suffering due to the increased electricity tariffs Rev.father Cyril Gamini has stated during a press briefing held in Colombo today .
A new mechanism has been prepared to reduce the increased Electricity
tariffs of Religious places by 50 percent according to the Public
Utilities Commission . 
This new Mechanism will be implemented by removing the religious places from Religious places category and re-negated them to the common services category, the President of the utilities commission Janaka Ratnayake has stated .
Accordingly the Electricity tariffs increased in last August which caused the increasing of Electricity bills in religious places by 550 percent will be reduced by 50 percent he has stressed.The Electricity will be supplied to the religious places by Rs.32 per a unit from Rs.75 per unit under the new mechanism he has further said .,
පිටතින් පෙන්වන අයුරින්ම.ආදරය /සෙනෙහස සිතෙහි දරාගෙන එකිනෙකා හා ආදරයෙන් පසුවනුයේ අතලොස්සකි.(උපුටා ගන්නා ලදි)
The Department of Examinations has decided to postpone the Grade five Scholarship Examination and the G.C.E Advanced level examination scheduled to be held in this December .
Accordingly the Grade five Scholarship Examination scheduled to be held on 04th of December has been postponed until 18th of December and the G.C.E Advanced Level Examination has been postponed until 23rd of January next year .
The Sapugaskande Oil Refinery has been closed down again from today (07) due to the non availability of foreign reserves to pay for a Crude oil ship the Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekare.has stated in Parliament .
However there's no shortage of Oil refined products in the country as the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (Ceypetco) has an adequate stocks of oil .
According to the Energy Minister the shortage of Forex for payment of two Crude oil Cargos already used at the refinery has led to the decision to close down the refinery.
He added that the ship carrying 100,000 Metric tones of Crude Oil Cargo that has been in Sri Lankan waters for the last 10 days will be unloaded as soon as an adequate Forex is available to the Ceypetco
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