Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa's brother MP Sarath Weerawansa, who was remanded for causing a loss of more than Rs.10.5 million to the Government by misusing a government vehicle, was further remanded till October 10 by Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today.
Controversy surrounds a letter purportedly sent by the Student Action Committee of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) to the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) claiming that the SAITM had allegedly forced its students to sit for the professorial appointments without pre-professorial clinical rotations and forensic medicine.
A heated argument was witnessed in Parliament yesterday when a government minister was verbally confronted by the government ally United National Party ( UNP), Joint Opposition and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ( JVP) after he objected to an oral question.
Minister of Health Rajitha Senaratne told Parliament said yesterday that the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) was currently investigating how the exhumed body parts of rugby player Wasim Thajudeen were transferred to the Merril Fernando Hospital in Malabe.
President Maithripala Sirisena speaking at the opening of the Sambuddha Jayanthi Commemoration Centre in Kurukele, Peradeniya yesterday, stressed that the presentation of the Buddhist Temporalities (Amendment) Bill and the Theravada Kathikawath Bill in Parliament was postponed at the request of the Mahanayakes of the three chapters, and added that the government would always act according to the advice of the Maha Sangha.
The air traffic controllers had suspended their work-to-rule campaign, which commenced yesterday after the Subject Minister assured a favourable response for their issues within a week, Air Traffic Controllers’ Association Vice President Tharindu Gajadeera said.
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena in Polonnaruwa, that the foundation stone originally laid by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga to construct the Nelum Pokuna Theatre had been bulldozed.
The Joint Opposition’s economic research unit yesterday charged that the 1,500-day economic plan which was expected to be announced within the next two weeks by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, would be another unsuccessful project of the government.
The application period for the 2018 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2018) also known as Green Card Lottery offered by the US would be commenced tonight from 9.30 till November 7 same time, for the applicants from Sri Lanka and Maldives, the US Embassy in Colombo said today.
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has no intention to increase electricity tariff in the foreseeable future despite coal and fuel prices going up dramatically in the last few months in addition to sharp increase of operational cost of the CEB, Power and Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said today.
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