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The government has not yet shown any interest to envisage a business plan to develop the Lotus Tower project, Prof. Samitha Manawadu, Coordinating Consultant and the Team Leader of the project, said.

The Management Services Department of the Ministry of Finance has been working out a mechanism to promote constables to positions up to Chief Inspectors of Police despite the existing cadre positions in the Police Depatment.

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.

ජාතික සම්මාන ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ(19) බණ්ඩාරණායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී මහත් උත්කර්ෂවත් අයුරින් පැවැත්විණි. ජාතිය උදෙසා කරන ලද අතිකීර්තිමත්, අති විශිෂ්ට හා ප්‍රශංසනීය සේවාව සඳහා ජාතික සම්මාන පිරිනැමීම මෙම මහොත්සවයේදී ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ සුරතින් සිදු විය.

Sri Lanka’s first Temperature and Humidity Controlled Warehouse Complex for Perishables will be opened in Dambulla in October this year, says Non-Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution Dr. Harsha de Silva.

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.

Sri Lanka’s semi luxury bus service with a fleet of 450 buses is to be taken out of commuter transportation soon as it has become inconvenienced for the public due to overcrowding.

The Ministry of Education has presented a cabinet paper calling for the reversal of the decision taken by the Ministry of Finance that the allocation of funds to provide tablet computers (tabs) for A/L students can be done only once in five years.

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.

Army Chief of Staff Major General Shavendra Silva has been appointed as the new Army Commander by President Maithripala Sirisena, President's Media Division said.

Whoever the candidates contesting for the forthcoming Presidential Election, they should pledge to eradicate narcotics, President Maithripala Sirisena said today in Polonnaruwa.

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

නිහාල් රූපසිංහ ලේකම්- මහනගර හා බස්නාහිර සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යාංශය

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.

අධ්‍යයන පොදු සහතික පත්‍ර සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ සමත් - අසමත්භාවය නොසලකා සෑම සිසුවකුට ම වසර දහතුනක අඛණ්ඩ පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනයක් හිමිකර දෙන 13 වසරක සහතික කළ අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන සඳහා තවත් ගුරුවරුන් පන්දහසක් අලුතින් බඳවා ගැනීමට පියවර ගන්නා බව අධ්‍යාපන ඇමැති අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා පවසයි.

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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