The Army has been deployed in 22 state run hospitals to assist in providing services to patients as a strike by health workers is underway.
At least 600 soldiers have been deployed in 22 hospitals so far.
An estimated 100,000 workers were due to take part in the strike which commenced at 6.30 a.m today .
They are demanding an allowance similar to that of doctors granted recently.
Meanwhile Navy and Air Force personnel too are to be deployed in hospitals.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasised that LKR 01 billion will be allocated next year for research on the relationship between Buddha’s teachings and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
V.V. Ganeshananthan has won the prestigious Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024 for her book ‘Brotherless Night’.
The Kandy railway station was inundated with water due to heavy rains.
All senior officials of the Department of Immigration and Emigration including the Commissioner General Harsha Illukpitiya today failed to attend a crucial meeting of the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) which was due to take up the controversy on outsourcing online and on arrival tourist visas.
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