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Sri Lanka’s much hyped Model Villege Programme is flushing tax payers’ rupees down the drain dashing hopes of Housing Minister Sajith Premadasa who tried to gain some political mileage out of it.

විශ්‍රාමික මේජර් ජෙනරාල් පාලිත ප්‍රනාන්දු සහ ඇවන්ගාඩ් මැරිටයිම් සර්විසස් සමාගමේ සභාපති මේජර් නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති ඇතුළු 08 දෙනෙකු වහාම අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලෙස නීතිපති දප්පුල ද ලිවේරා මහතා වැඩ බලන පොලිස්පතිවරයාට අද නියෝග කර තිබේ.

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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The project to upgrade the Palaly Domestic Airport in Jaffna as a regional airport at a cost of Rs 2250 million is set to commence this afternoon.

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.

President Maithripala Sirisena presenting an award to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) Director General, Sarath Jayamanna PC during the Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) felicitation ceremony held at the BMICH yesterday (5).

The Department for Registration of Persons today said the issuance of National Identity Cards had been temporarily halted following a systems error.

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.

The police requests the public to provide any information on the usage of drugs to the hotline 1984.

The Gazette notification which was issued declaring the railways as an essential service would be revoked if the trade unions agree not to launch any strike action within the next two weeks, Transport Minister Arjuna Ranatunga said yesterday.

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.

Sri Lankans should build their nation on their own because no other country will help us in this endeavor, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.

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.

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.

The tourist paradise in Sri Lanka, Nuwara –Eliya will get the much-anticipated cable car system linking Nuwara – Eliya Racecourse with the Nanu Oya railway station and Single Tree hill top with each other.

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.

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.