Adani Green Energy SL Ltd has categorically refuted reports circulating about claimed changes to its renewable energy agreement in Sri Lanka.
“Claims suggesting that we have offered to revise the pricing to 7 cents per kilowatt-hour are entirely false and without foundation’, a spokesman for the Company said in a statement. “We remain fully committed to the original terms of the agreement as established with the relevant Sri Lankan authorities. Adani Green Energy SL Ltd’s investment plans and project parameters have not changed.,” the statement said.
“While the company has willfully and respectfully withdrawn from the proposed wind project, Adani Group reaffirms that it would always be available to undertake any development opportunity if the Sri Lankan government ever considers it to participate,” the statement added.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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