All Party Leaders had drcided to take the motion submitted by the government to remove the chairman of the Public Utilities Commission Janaka Ratnayake from his post to debate on 24 th of May .
The Motion was submitted to the Parliament by the chief government whip Prasanna Ranathunge .
Railway Station Masters Union had decided to launch a week long Strike if the Authorities are not taking any action to remove the corrupted official appointed as the Deputy General Manager(Commercial) of the Sri lanka railways from the post .
If the talks scheduled to be held next tuesday (16) between the Station Masters Union officials and the Transport Minister on the above appointment fails ,station masters union will launch a week long strike the Union had announced.
Station Masters attached to the Sri Lanka Railways had launched one day token strike from Tuesday midnight to Wednesday midnight over the appointment issue caused the cancellation of 22 train journeys including 10 office trains.
The State Minister Of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya had ordered the Department of Trade and Investment policies to submit a report on increasing the prices of Wheat Flour and Sugar in the local Market.
The Essentials Importers Association had earlier stated the wholesale prices of a kilo gramme of Wheat flour and Sugar had been increased by Rs.10 and Rs.25 .
However State Minister of Finance had stated that there cant be a price increase of Wheat Flour and Sugar at a time Sri lankan rupee is depreciating against the US Dollar.The prices of Wheat flour too dropped in the world market he had stressed .
Due to the ongoing one day Island wide token strike of the Railway Station Masters five office trains scheduled to commence in all lines this morning (10) had been cancelled Sri Lanka Railways Department has announced.
Railway Station Masters Had launched an Island wide token strike from midnight last night (09) until midnight today (10) over appointing an official accused of corruption as the Deputy General Manager ( Commercial ) in Sri Lanka Railways Department
The executive committee of the which met yesterday (09)had unanimously decided to launch the strike to urge the authorities to reverse tbe decision taken to appoint the accused official.
Police had arrested 14 persons over assaulting to death a 27 year old youth and critically injuring another at an Air condition repairing center at Dehiwala area (Colomno District).
A Group.of persons had assaulted and killed the youth who was a resident of Bdowita area in Mount Lavinia last night and police had also taken into custody the van ,Car and the Three wheeler used by the suspects
