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Sri Lanka Tourism is all set to celebrate World Tourism Day 2019, with a two-day celebration on the UNWTO’s theme ‘Tourism and Jobs: A Better Future for All’.

In addition to the free education provided to school and university students, some 90 per cent of vocational training courses are conducted free of charge under the present government, Deputy Minister of Skills Development and Vocational Training Karunarathna Paranawithana said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been summoned to appear before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to investigate corruption of the current administration on September 12 to provide a statement on the Cabinet paper approved in 2016 in connection with the lease of D.P.A. Jayasinghe building which houses the Agriculture Ministry.

තිරිඟු පිටි මිල පෙර පැවති මිල ගණන් යටතේ ලබා දීමට පිටි සංගම් එකඟත්වය පළ කළ බව කෘෂිකර්ම, ග්‍රාමීය ආර්ථික කටයුතු, වාරිමාර්ග සහ ධීවර හා ජලජ සම්පත් සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යාංශය ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිනවා.

The present government has allocated the largest amount of funds for free education and health compared with previous governments, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe pointed out yesterday.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද(09) පාසල් ගොඩනැඟිලි 500ක් සිසු අයිතියට පත් කිරීම සිදු කිරීමට නියමිතව ඇත.

වත්කම් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්නොකළ කැබිනට් ඇමතිවරු 8 දෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව ට්‍රාන්ස්ප්‍රේරන්සි ඉන්ටනැෂනල් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආයතනය අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ විමර්ශන කොමිෂන් සභාව වෙත අද (10) පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි.

President Maithripala Sirisena last night brought the influential Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) under the purview of the Ministry of Defence by an Extraordinary Gazette notification.

With a view to meeting the subject-specialist teacher shortage in national and provincial schools, 4,286 diploma holders of Colleges of Education, were recruited to the teacher service yesterday at a ceremony held under the patronage of Prime Minister at Temple Trees yesterday.

Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment Palitha Thewarapperuma and fiver others were remanded by the Mathugama Magistrate’s Court till September 16 on charges of forcibly burying a body at an unauthorised land, police said.

Sri Lanka government will be taking urgent measures to digitize the court system as part of its ongoing digitization of State institutions

President Maithripala Sirisena will appear before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) looking into the Easter Sunday terror attacks on 20 September.

The construction of the Port City entrance connecting it to the expressway network is scheduled to commence today (10) under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Some 2,400 administrative workers affiliated with the Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association (SLAS) will go on sick leave tomorrow and, on Wednesday, engage in a protest campaign in Colombo demanding a permanent solution to unresolved salary anomalies and related concerns.

Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera who is in Jaffna overseeing the implementation of entrepreneurship loan scheme to young people in the northern province today held series of meetings with war affected people to help them to make use of the opportunity under the enterprise Sri Lanka Exhibition to obtain loans.

ජනාධිපතිවරණය නොවැම්බර් 9 සහ දෙසැම්බර් 9 අතර දිනකදී පැවැත්වීමට ඉඩ පවතින බව මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප්‍රිය පවසනවා. ජනාධිපතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමේ බලතල අද (10) සිට මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවට හිමිවන බවයි ඔහු සදහන් කළේ. මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ ඊෙය් (09) පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් එහි සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප්‍රිය මේ බව සදහන් කළා.

Blaming the Easter Sunday attacks on policy shortcomings, alternative presidential hopeful and former intelligence bigwig Dr. Ajith Colonne yesterday rejected claims of state intelligence being weakened due to the prosecution of a few bad actors.

Sri Lanka government is reviewing existing laws on state-owned lands in the extent of 82 per cent of available land to broad-base ownership