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By Norman Palihawadane Rural Roads and Other Infrastructure State Minister Nimal Lanza on Tuesday said that Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa should get his facts right before pointing finger at the government whenever something went wrong. “Now, the Opposition Leader blames the government for the ferry disaster in the Kurunchenkerny lagoon in Kinniya. It is his […] ....
The appointment of eight Secretaries to Ministries has been approved by the Committee on High Posts, Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake said. General (retd.) Kamal Gunaratne, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence was among the Secretaries to the Ministries who received approval of the Committee on High Posts chaired by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena […] ....
CM’s wife received an additional fuel allowance The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has indicted former North Central Province Chief Minister S. M. Ranjith Samarakoon (UPFA) and his wife Shanthi Chandrasena, in the Colombo High Court for allegedly causing losses to the government by fraudulently obtaining fuel allowance between 27 Sept, […] ....
By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Treasury Secretary Dr. R.H.S. Samaratunga said the Environment Ministry had routinely received foreign funds for projects that had been implemented without prior approval from the External Resources Department (ERD) of the Treasury. Dr. Samaratunga said so when The Island sought his response to the Auditor General’s disclosure that the Environment Ministry […] ....
By Ifham Nizam A research conducted in Jaffna last year has revealed that the rapid salinisation and pollution of groundwater in the northern peninsula and very likely elsewhere in Sri Lanka is leading to the adaptation of freshwater malaria and arboviral mosquito vectors to brackish water and polluted water with physiological changes that reduce the […] ....