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The Excise Department would launch a hot-line -1913-from Monday (19) to receive public complaints on illicit liquor, the Finance Ministry said.

The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) says it remains committed to protecting the rights of victims and their families.

ද්විත්ව පුරවැසියෙකුට ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් විය නොහැකි බවට 19 වැනි සංශෝධනයෙන් සම්මත කරගත්, ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා ප්‍රතිපාදනයට අදාළ විධිවිධාන ජනාධිපති මැතිවරණ පනතට එකතු කිරීම සඳහා කෙටුම්පත් කර ඇති සංශෝධන අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ බලපෑම නිසා දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කර නොමැති බව වාර්තා වෙයි.

පාස්කු දින ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන විශේෂ කාරක සභාව මග හැරියහොත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු වරප්‍රසාද පනත යටතේ ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේනට එරෙහිව නීතිමය ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගැනීමට තීරණය කර ඇත.

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Sri Lanka's Attorney General has submitted a price formula for liquefied petroleum gas to court for approval to end ministerial discretion and bring back evidence based decision making, Economic Reforms and Public Distribution Minister Harsha de Silva said.

A cabinet paper is to be submitted shortly seeking an investigation on ministry secretaries who have failed to implement cabinet decisions or delayed executing the decisions.

Whatever planned by whoever, it was necessary to hold Presidential polls between September 02nd and December 08th this year according to the Constitution, Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Vajira Abeywardana said.

සීමා නිර්ණය වාර්තාව ඉදිරිපත් වී නොමැති අවස්ථාවක පැරණි ක්‍රමය යටතේ පළාත් සභා මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමට හැකියාවක් තිබේ දැයි නිගමනයක් කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබෙන ඉල්ලීම විභාග කිරීම සඳහා පංච පුද්ගල විනිසුරු මඩුල්ලක් නම් කර තිබේ.

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has been bleeding money on waste transport and disposal for many years by dishing out business to private contractors, instead of using millions of rupees allocated to it for the purchase of its own tractors, tippers, compactors and bulldozers.

President Maithripala Sirisena requested everyone to refrain from making statements which are detrimental to the national security of the country.

In keeping with traditional customs, Diyawadana Nilame (Custodian) of the Sacred Sri Dalada Maligawa Nilanga Dela Bandara, along with the Basnayake Nilames of the four Devalas, presented the traditional communication of the successful conclusion of the Kandy Esala Perahera (Sannasa) to the Head of State, President Maithripala Sirisena at President’s House in Kandy yesterday.

Diploma holders and students who have passed the Advanced Level are good enough to be recruited to the software development sector to fill the workforce gap in the IT-BPM sector, said an industry expert in response to the shortage of employees in the sector highlighted in the ‘IT-BPM Workforce survey 2019’ launched by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) recently.

Anuradapura Integrated Urban Development Project is to see the light of the day asa result of improper planning and inefficiency of officials assigned to steer the project.

Although Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa are seeking the mandate of the people to bring them into power on the promise of establishing national security, the only security they ensured during their tenure was that of their family and friends and not the country, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in Jaffna yesterday.

A period of 60 and 50 days are required to hold the Provincial Council elections and presidential election respectively, says Election Commissioner - Mahinda Deshapriya.

රජයේ සියලු පාසල් සිසු දරුවන්ට හා පිරිවෙන් ශිෂ්‍ය භික්ෂූණ් වහන්සේ හට 2020 වර්ෂය සඳහා නොමිලේ ලබාදෙන පෙළපොත් බෙදා හැරීම අද (16) පෙරවරුවේ නිල වශයෙන් ආරම්භ කළේය.

Everyone should come together to create a better country and a virtuous future generation, President Maithripala Sirisena said.