Transport activities of the Colombo-Badulla upcountry Railway line between kinigama and Hiloya areas had been disrupted yesterday (08)due to a falling of a mango tree across the railway line. .
The Mango tree had fallen as a result of the adverse weather conditions prevailing in at present it has been reported .The railway workers attached to the Bandarawela Railway station had removed the fallen tree from the railway track .
The Board of Directors had decided to remove the Chief executive officer of the National Medicinal Regulatory Authority (NMRA) Dr.Vijith Gunasekare from his post with immediatte effect due to.his involvement on importing sub standard drugs to Sri Lnka the Health Ministry has announced .
The former Chief Executive Officer of the NMRA Dr.Gunasekare has been recalled to the setvice of Health Ministry according to the Health Ministry Secretary Janaka Sri Chandragupta .New Health Minister Dr.Ramesh Pathirune had appointed Dr.Ananda,Wijewikrama as the new Chairman of NMRA recently.
Party leaders had unanimously decided to hold a debate on corrupted officials of the Sri Lanka Cricket tomorrow(09) and passed a resolution urging the officials to leave from office.
MP's on government and opposition had today (108) decided to.join hands ttogether to chase away the corrupt officials of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board according to the reports.
Meanwhile addresing the Parliament Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe had stated that the some offocials of the President's office had mislead the president on Cricket boatd crisis.
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Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe had sacked the Management of the Sri Lanka Cricket board and appointed an Interim Commitee to run Sri Lanka Cricket headed by the former Sri Lanka Cricket Captain Arjuna Ranatunge last Monday morning(06).
However the Sacked Cricket Board president Shammi de silva had taken an interim order From the Court of Appeal yesterday to temporarily ban the Sports minister's decision to appoint an interim committee to carryout duties of Sri Lanka cricket and the gazette notification issued by the Minister in this regard.The Court of Appeal had issued an interim order banning the function
Sports Minister had appointed a seven member Interim court on monday by sacking the SriLanka cricket board management headed by Shammi de silva over corruption charges .The members of the newly appointed interim committee are Arjuna Ranatunge (president) ,Retired Supreme Court Justices M,I.M Imam,Rohini Marasinghe,Retired High Court Justice Iranganie Perera,Upali Darmadasa,Rakitha,Rajapakshe,and Hisham Jamaldeen.Retired Court judges were appointed to the committee to investigate on the alallegations levelled against the sacked cricket board management .
The match losses of the Sri Lanka Cricket team in the ongoing World cup tournament in India led to severe criticism of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board and players.
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Sri Lanka's All rounder Anjelo mathews has become the first Cricketer who was dismissed due to the Timed Out rule of the International Cricket Council applied by the Bangladesh Cricket captain Shakib Al hassen during the World Cup match that played in Arun jaitley stadium at new delhi ,India last evening.
As a result of the Bangladesh cricket captain's request umpire had given Mathews out and he was,sent back to the psvilion without facing a single ball.Mathews had faced this incident due to his failure to face the ball after coming to bat within three minutes due to a broken strap of his helmet it has been reported.
Mathews had appealed against thedecision but the unpires had ruled him out and many commentators of the match also shown their disbelief over the decision.
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Due to the heavy showers prevailing in the country at present many areas in the Colombo district had been submerged last evening (06) it has been reported .
Accordingly areas including Armour street,Grandpass,Maradana,Thummulla junction ,Dematagoda and Punchi borella had been submerged caused heavy trafic in the roads of surrounding areas it has been reported.
The Litro Gas Company has increased the prices of Litro Domestic LP Gas Cylinders with effect from last night(04) the Company has announced .
With the new Price revision the Price of a Cylinder of 12.5 KG Litro Gas has been increased by Rs.95 to Rs.3565 ,Price of the 5KG Gas Cylinder by Rs.38 to Rs.1431 and the price of 2.3 KG Gas Cylinder by Rs.18 to Rs.668.
