The Annual Flower Show in Nuwara Eliya was declared open at the Victoria Park today by chief guest Assistant High Commission for India in Kandy, Radha Venkadaraman.
The flower show is the main event of the April Season in Nuwara-Eliya. The event is organized by the Municipal Council of Nuwara-Eliya and aims to encourage flower growers in the area. The festival goes back to pre-Independence days when the British unofficially declared Nuwara Eliya their “home away from home”.
The Government is finalising a list of names to be posted as heads of Sri Lanka’s missions abroad with ex-Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya assuming the position of Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.
Kandiah (Ken) Balendra, a veteran corporate leader and the first Sri Lankan chairman of John Keells Holdings (JKH) has passed away at the age of 85.
The CID has arrested Susantha de Silva, former Managing Director of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) for allegedly misappropriating 6.1 million rupees in 2014.
Chief Justice Murdu Fernando has forwarded the names of four senior High Court judges to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to fill four existing vacancies in the Court of Appeal.
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