Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By the Sunday Observer News Desk
Report to be presented in Parliament tomorrow
State Minister of Cooperative Services, Marketing Development and Consumer Protection, Lasantha Alagiyawanna said the recent incidents of explosions and fires linked to gas cylinders are being investigated and a comprehensive report on the findings will be presented in Parliament tomorrow, November 29.
He said steps have been taken to improve the safety features of gas...
To be vested with the public
The Mirigama to Kurunegala stretch of the Central Expressway is due to be vested with the public at an event to be graced by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday, November 28. The 39.7 km stretch of road will feature four lanes and five interchanges at Mirigama, Nakalagamuwa, Dambokka, Kurunegala and Yaggapitiya.
The Mirigama to...
Fertiliser will be sent to Agrarian Service Centres by Oct. 31
Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said that there is no fertiliser shortage for the Maha season as claimed by the Opposition, adding that sufficient fertiliser would be available at Agrarian Service Centres countrywide from October 31.
The Minister said the fertiliser stocks will be distributed to all 562 Agrarian Service Centres by October 31. “Then farmers...
President Maithripala Sirisena using the power vested in him, under Emergency Regulations No. 01 of 2019, has taken steps to ban National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI) of Sri Lanka, the President’s Media Unit said yesterday.
As a result, all activities of both organisations and their property will be frozen under government regulations.
As...
Sri Lanka’s former Ambassador to the United States Jaliya Wickramasuriya is likely to be offered a proffer agreement by US federal prosecutors this week, to spill the beans on the Government run by his cousin Mahinda Rajapaksa between 2005-2015, in exchange for leniency in money laundering and immigration fraud cases filed against him in Washington DC, the Sunday Observer...
By the Sunday Observer News Desk
The police intervened to ferry 370 people stranded in the Western Province to their hometowns yesterday. They will be the first...
Irresponsible behaviour of people, the cause:
In the wake of a report that 65 Navy personnel were infected with COVID-19 by last Friday, Health authorities have taken measures...