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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.

පසුගියදා සිදු වූ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන පාර්ලිමේන්තු විශේෂ කාරක සභාව හමුවේ පෙනී සිටීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

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.

ඉදිරි වසර 05 ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් යාපනය දියුණු කිරීම සඳහා නව සංවර්ධන සැලසුමක් ක්‍රියාවට නංවන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා පවසනවා. යාපනය නගරශාලා ගොඩනැගිල්ල ඉදි කිරීම සඳහා මුල්ගල තැබීම (07) සිදුවූයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්.

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.

අන්තර්ජාතික ක්‍රික‍ට් කවුන්සිලය මගින් මෙරට ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනය වෙත දූෂිත හා අපරාධ චෝදනා එල්ල කිරීම බරපතල තත්වයක් බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමේ හිටපු නායක, අමාත්‍ය අර්ජුණ රණතුංග මහතා පවසනවා. එම චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් වහාම පරීක්ෂණ ආරම්භ කළයුතු බවත් එ‍සේ නොමැති වුවහොත් මෙරට ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවට එක්වන කලු පැල්ලම ලෙහෙසියෙන් මකා දැමීමට නොහැකි වනු ඇති බවත් අමාත්‍යවරයා අවධාරණය කරයි.

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 first phase of the Rs. 2.25 billion Palaly airport development project will be completed by 10 October, with regional flight operations set to commence six days later, Transport & Civil Aviation Minister Arjuna Ranatunga said.

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.

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday said 12 political parties will field candidates for the upcoming Presidential poll.

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

Investigations into Ceypetco 65 million fraud Presidential Commission appointed to investigatecorruption at state institutionswithin the past four years has commencedinvestigations into Rs. 65 million fraud said to have taken place at CeylonPetroleum Corporation.