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The Cabinet this week decided to approve Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera's proposed amendments to loans offered under the ‘Enterprise Sri Lanka’ loan program at the next Cabinet meeting.

ඇමෙරිකානු රජයේ සහශ්‍ර අභියෝග ආයතනය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලැබෙන ප්‍රදානයක් ලෙස ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 480ක් ලබා ගැනීමට අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලය ඊයේ (29 වැනිදා) අනුමැතිය දුන් බව මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය පවසයි.

The voting duration for the presidential election has been extended from 7.00 am to 5.00 pm considering the length of the ballot paper, Elections Commissioner General Saman Sri Rathnayake said.

The reclaimed land with the extent of 446 hectares on which the Port City is located was officially handed over to the Urban Development Authority (UDA) yesterday at the Presidential Secretariat at a ceremony attended by President Maithripala Sirisena.

President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have told the Cabinet today that he would not accept the report compiled by the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that probed the Easter Sunday carnage.

රජයේ පාසල්වල විදේශ භාෂා ඉගැන්වීම සඳහා උපාධිධාරි ගුරුවරුන් බඳවා ගැනීමට කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය හිමිව ඇත.

With the rectification of pension anomalies, the payment of arrears of over half a million pensioners would be paid on the November 8 with the five months arrears, Public Administration Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara said.

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The Livestock Development Ministry said that it would not grant any permission to import any stocks of chicken and eggs due to accumulation of local stocks.

සියලු ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයින් පරිසරය පිළිබඳ සිය ප්‍රතිපත්තිය පැහැදිළිව රටට ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුතු බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසනවා. ජනාධිපතිවරයා පෙන්වාදෙන්නේ අපේක්ෂකයින් ජනතාවට ලබාදෙන ප්‍රතිඥාවලින් සහ මැතිවරණ ප්‍රකාශන තුළින් පරිසර සංරක්ෂණය පිළිබඳ ප්‍රතිපත්තිය පැහැදිළිව ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුතු බවයි.

The Elections Commission (EC) has called for a meeting with political party representatives this morning to discuss matters related to the forthcoming presidential election, an official said yesterday. This is the third such meeting to be called by EC since the declaration of the election.

The Election Commission said nearly 659,030 were eligible to cast their postal votes from tomorrow to November 5 with November 7 as an additional day for postal voting for those who had failed to cast their votes earlier.

The Cabinet has approved the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant of US$ 480 million.

A Public Debt Management Bureau will be set up under the purview of the Finance Ministry separating the institution from the Central Bank (CB) purview.

ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ඡන්දය සලකුණු කරන ආකාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප්‍රිය විසින් දැනුවත් කිරීමක් සිදු කර තිබෙනවා.

The one day registration of several categories of vehicles has been temporarily suspended, according to the Motor Traffic Department.

The Election Commission has deployed around 200,000 state sector officers for election duty at polling booths and counting centers for the 2019 presidential election, said the Deputy Election Commissioner J.A.S.P. Jayasinghe.