State Enterprise Development Deputy Minister Eran Wickramaratne said today that the process of setting up a Volkswagen car plant in Kuliyapitiya, Kurunegala is moving ahead and the BOI had handed over the concluded proposal to the project company.
A commission comprising former Attorney Generals and Auditor Generals should be appointed to probe the bribery charges against the President as reported in the Australian media, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila said today.
The new draft Constitution could be presented in Parliament before the next budget which would be announced by mid-November this year, Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera has said while hoping that it will celebrate the country’s diversity.
The 45-year-old Sri Lankan woman whose death sentence by stoning for adultery, was commuted by the Saudi Arabian government last December, will return to Sri Lanka this week, the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) confirmed today.
Indian Minister of State for Commerce, Nirmala Sitharaman, who was to visit Sri Lanka on August 25 for a short visit at the invitation of the Sri Lankan Minister of International Trade, Malik Samarawickrama, cancelled her visit on account of pressing engagements in New Delhi, reliable sources told Indian Express on Saturday.
Director General of Health Dr. Palitha Maheepala yesterday ordered the Director of the Colombo South Teaching Hospital to investigate the incident where a woman was allegedly sexually abused during a medical examination.
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