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Chairman of the National Elections' Commission - Mahinda Deshapriya has said that it is not possible to cancel nominations.

අප්‍රේල් මාසයේදී සිය විශ්‍රාම වැටුප් ලබා ගන්නා විශ්‍රාම වැටුප් හිමියන්ගේ විශ්‍රාම වැටුප නිවසටම ගෙනැවිත් භාරදීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙලක් මේ වන විටත් තැපැල් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ කාර්යය මණ්ඩලව විසින් ආරම්භ කර ඇති බව තැපැල්පති රංජිත් ආරියරත්න ප්‍රකාශ කරනවා.

සරසවි සිසුන්ගේ මහපොළ ශිෂ්‍යාධාර අදාළ ගිණුම්වලට ඊයේ(31)දින බැර කල බව උසස අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය බන්දුල ගුණාවර්ධන මහතා රජයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ පැවැත්වුණු මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී ප්‍රකාශ කලේය.

කෘෂිකාර්මික භාණ්ඩ ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය නොවන භාණ්ඩ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආනයනය කිරීම සීමා කරන ලද්දේ ඉදිරියේ මුහුණ දීමට සිදුවන ආර්ථික පසුබෑමට මුහුණ දීමට බව අමාත්‍ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැහැදිලි කළේය.

The Government has decided to suspend or limit the importation of non-essential goods except pharmaceutical products and fuel, Cabinet spokesman and Minister Ramesh Pathirana said.

කොවිඩ් නයින්ටීන් සෞඛ්‍ය හා සමාජ සංරක්ෂණ අරමුදලේ ශේෂය රුපියල් මිලියන 242ක් දක්වා ඉහළ ගොස් තිබේ.

Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) advised all mobile and fixed telephone operators to provide continue services for all consumers ensuring no service disconnections based on non payment.

Extension needed as reopening date of schools unknown
O/L results to be released before end April
Calls for encouragement of e-learning
Minister says Mahapola funds in trouble as Treasury cash strapped and no sale of lotteries

Director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom, has phoned President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today and thanked him for mobilizing the entire government in the fight against COVID-19.

ලොව පුරා ව්‍යාප්ත නව කොරෝනා වසංගතය හමුවේ රට තුළ ආහාර නිෂ්පාදනය කඩිනම් කිරීම සදහා වැඩපිළිවෙළක් ආරම්භ කිරීමට ජනාධිපති ‌ෙගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පියවර ‌ෙගෙන ඇත.

Defence Ministry Secretary Maj.Gen.(Rtd) Kamal Gunaratne said while fighting against COVID-19, all intelligence agencies, including military intelligence, were also kept on high alert to face any possible security threat, including re-grouping of certain elements involve in terrorism and extremism.

Curfew imposed in the Southern, Eastern, Uva, Sabaragamuwa and the North-Central provinces and in the Nuwara-Eliya, Matale, Kurunegala, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi Districts has been lifted as of 6am today and will be re-imposed at 2 this afternoon.

The Government yesterday called on the public to continue supporting the measures taken to counter COVID-19, despite the hardships created by prolonged curfew.

The Education Minister says that the 2020 Grade V Scholarship Examination will not be postponed.

Payment of Rs. 10,000 to be in two phases, to be completed by 10 April
No interest, 6 month grace period, 18 months to repay
Payments to be delivered to doorstep

The Presidential Secretariat had received information about several instances of fraudsters collecting money using COVID-19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund as cover, the President's Media Division (PMD) said. The Secretary to the President requested the public to make their contributions to the Fund only through direct bank deposits, cheques or any other approved mean and not to donate money to any organizations or individuals.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today held a discussion with the Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and other senior officials to assess the emerging macro-economic conditions due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.

Updated guidelines on Covid-19 related deaths issued by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday state that the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of the disposing of bodies of those who succumb to coronavirus would exclusively be cremation.