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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday assured that Sri Lanka’s school system will be upgraded to be the best system in the Asian region in terms of quality of education and technology.

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The Colombo Light Railway project is a significant step forward to ensure that Sri Lanka is on its way to becoming a modern, twenty first century society, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.

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President Maithripala Sirisena is said to have asked two of the Governors to resign from their posts.

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State Minister of Defence and Mass Media Non-Cabinet Minister Ruwan Wijewardene yesterday denied that the Government was preparing to sign agreements with the US that would enable the establishment of foreign military bases in Sri Lanka.

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Neither the Presidential Secretariat nor the Ministry of Justice and Prison Reforms, has informed the Prisons Department with regard to implementing the death penalty as declared by President Maithripala Sirisena, a senior prison official told Daily Mirror.

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The report of the probe into corruption in SriLankan Airlines will be provided to Parliament and released to the public, President Maithripala Sirisena promised yesterday, confirming that he had already received the report from the investigating committee. Addressing a function at Siripura Central Maha Vidyalaya, Polonnaruva, yesterday, the President declared that he did not take the office of the President to protect certain individuals but to protect the people of the country.

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Sri Lanka’s Decentralized Development programmes have been expedited on the directions of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasighe on the eve of up coming presidential elections.

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State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene will make a statement clarifying the Government’s position on the controversial Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to be entered into with the United States government, Public Administration Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara said.

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The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to allow the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation to replace a controversial 140-meter stretch of dilapidated fuel pipelines between Colombo Port and the CPC plants in Kolonnawa with a Treasury allocation for swift disbursement of compensation to affected families. The Cabinet proposal will enable the Urban Development Authority to re-settle affected resident local families in suitable housing schemes.

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රජයේ මුදල් භාවිතයේ දී දක්වන ලද ප‍්‍රශස්තභාවය සැළකිල්ලට ගනිමින් රාජ්‍ය ගිණුම් කාරක සභාව විසින් විමර්ශනය කරන ලද රජයේ විශේෂ වැයකිරීම් ඒකකය යටතේ වන ආයතන 838 ක් අතරින් අග‍්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයට මුල් තැන හිමිව තිබේ.

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සීනි සහිත පැණිබීම සඳහා යළි බදු පැනවීමට අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයේ අවධානය යොමුව තිබෙනවා.

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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the government has carried out a number of development programmes despite the Easter Sunday bomb blasts, anti-government campaign and many other challenges.

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A group of foreign artists and journalists who had come to the country to participate in the function organised annually by the SAARC Secretariat concurrent to the SAARC film festival, are worried as this function has been cancelled on the grounds that there is no security.

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A month-long special operation would be launched from July 5 to arrest drunk drivers, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said.

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චීනයෙන් දුම්වැටි ආනයනය කිරීම නතර කිරීමට අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලය අද (02) දින තීරණය කළ බව සෞඛ්‍ය, පෝෂණ හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍ය දොස්තර රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා පවසයි.

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නිසි වේලාවේදී නිසි තීන්දු නොගැනීමේ පාප කර්මයට කර ගැසීමට විදුලි පාරිභෝගිකයන්ට සිදු වී ඇති බව විෂය භාර අමාත්‍ය රවී කරුණානායක මහතා පවසයි. මේ නිසා පාරිභෝගික ජනතාවට 15% - 20% ක අමතර විදුලි පිරිවැයක් දැරීමට සිදුව ඇති බවයි ඇමතිවරයා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ. එම තත්වයෙන් පාරිභෝගිකයා නිදහස් කිරීම සඳහා අවම පිරිවැයක් යටතේ විදුලි ඒකකයක් නිපදවීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගනිමින් සිටින බව ද විදුලිබල, බලශක්ති හා ව්‍යාපාර සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය රවී කරුණානායක මහතා පවසයි.

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පාසල්වලට දරුවන් ඇතුළත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නොකඩවා අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය වෙත දිනපතා විශාල ඉල්ලීම් ප්‍රමාණයක් යොමු වෙනවා.

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National Carrier Sri Lankan Airlines (SLA) currently in the process of restructuring on the directions of Presidential expert committee is nose-diving with no escape in sight.