University teachers have cited four main reasons among many that have caused the country to become bankrupt economically.
A committee is to be appointed to resolve an electricity supply issue affecting the entire southern province.
The decision to appoint this committee came at a meeting chaired by president’s chief of staff Sagala Ratnayake.
It has been proposed to lay electricity lines with a 220 kw capacity between Polpitiya and Hambantota to link the province to the CEB’s main supply line.
The related project on an ADB credit has been launched, but has since hit a snag as 600 metres of the transmission line has to go over a private tea estate.
Its owner demands a huge compensation to grant permission, and has been changing the sum from time to time.
The government estimate places a Rs. 1.6 million payment, but she has demanded Rs. 9.6 million.
Her employment with an affiliate institution of the World Bank has aggravated the issue.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed that an estimate be obtained from an independent evaluator and a committee appointed to make the required coordination to settle the dispute.
Accordingly, Ratnayake has tasked the Public Utilities Commission with appointing the committee.
Five districts, including those in the southern province, are supplied with electricity generated by Samanala Wewa reservoir.
The CEB has warned the government that in cases of the reservoir’s water level running alarmingly low, the entire province will have to experience hours of power-cuts.
Electricity bought from a private supplier in Embilipitiya is inadequate to provide a 24-hour supply.
Freedom People's Congress (FPC) MP Prof. Channa Jayasumana is to launch a book written by him titled ‘Kurundi Vihara Vansaya.’
A Buddhist monk has been accused of attempting to take over land belonging to Tamils to expand his temple at Thennamaramvadi in Trincomalee.
University teachers say they will take justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and Ada Derana channel to court over remarks defamatory of them.
A total of 83,825 members of 26,157 families have been adversely affected in four districts hit worst by the prevailing drought, said the Disaster Management Centre.
A suspended judicial medical officer had performed the postmortem examination on three-year-old Mohamed Hamdun Faslin, who died on 28 July at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children due to an infection following a kidney surgery.
All responsible authorities should accept blame for the failure to give advance warning to farmers about a severe
The attorney general informed the Supreme Court yesterday (04) that domestic debt restructuring (DDR) is subject to parliamentary approval under the final stage of the IMF’s proposal, and that the court has no power to intervene.
MP Namal Rajapksa has still not paid the electricity bill due for his wedding in 2019, said former JVP provincial councilor Nalin Hewage quoting a reply from the CEB to a RTI filed by him.
