The Police will deploy nearly 2,000 recruits from Police Training Colleges across the island for election duty, Police Spokesman SSP Ruwan Gunasekara said. According to Gunasekara this will be the first time that new recruits will be deployed for election duties. “The decision was taken as the Police intends to deploy officers in full strength to ensure a free and fair election,” he said.
Referring to the statement made by opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa over his concerns regarding the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday challenged the opposition leader to show whether the content of the MCC was detrimental to the country.
Several projects completed under the billions of rupees money eaten Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project have been vested in the public on Wednesday 30 after years of distress inflicted on the people in the area.
Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya came under heavy criticism over a letter he issued last night, purportedly on behalf of the Elections Commission, directing the State-owned Independent Television Network (ITN) station to desist from airing any live political programs, and instructing the station to clear the content of all political programs with the Elections Commission. The reason, Deshapriya said in his letter, was that the Commission had received a complaint that such a program aired on ITN had caused duress to presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday the Democratic National Front (DNF) was committed to carrying forward the development projects initiated by the government during the past five years.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact Agreement and the Program Implementation Agreement of providing USD 480 million grant to Sri Lanka will be presented and enacted in Parliament of Sri Lanka once it is signed.
United National Front leader, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe traveled to the North today where he met various groups and assured the development of the Province.
යෝජිත මිලේනියම් චැලේන්ජ් කෝපරේෂන් ගිවිසුමට අත්සන් තැබීම වහා අත්හිටුවන්නැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා නියෝග කර තිබෙනවා. ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්ය මංගල සමරවීර මහතා අමතා මේ බව දැනුම් දී ඇති බවයි වාර්තා වන්නේ.
මිලේනියම් චැලේන්ජ් කෝපරේෂන්ස් ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීම නොවැම්බර් 16 වැනිදාට පෙර සිදු නොකරන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසා තිබේ.
The Government today accused state media of failing in its duties over the past few years.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement was drafted with the consent of the Attorney General and would be presented in Parliament, the Finance Ministry said today.
Tomorrow is a special delivery day for polling cards for those who have not received their cards by post, Deputy Postmaster General (Operations) D.A.R.K. Ranasinghe said.
The National Elections Commission says some candidates contesting the Presidential election are promoting other candidates.
පාසල් සිසු සිසුවියන් හතලිස් තුන් ලක්ෂයක් වෙනුවෙන් අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය හඳුන්වා දුන් සුරක්ෂා රක්ෂණය හරහා රුපියල් මිලියන 540ක පමණ කොමිස් මුදලක් පාර්ශවයකට හිමි තිබෙන බවට කරුණු හෙළිදරව් වී තිබේ.
Will replace wooden boxes due to length of ballot paper
3000 plastic boxes which are with EC will also be used
Postal voting for the 2019 Presidential Election will begin today and will be held in 987 centres across the country. A total of 659,030 public officials are eligible to cast their votes today and tomorrow (1 November), while those who have applied for postal voting in the Police Department can do so on 4-5 November, the Election Commission said.
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