President Ranil Wickremesinghe convened an urgent Cabinet meeting this evening at the Presidential Secretariat.
During the Cabinet meeting, it was decided to study the Supreme Court's interim order preventing Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon from functioning in the post of IGP in detail and to announce the Cabinet's decision within the next two days.
The SC's interim order was announced today after considering nine Fundamental Rights petitions filed challenging the appointment of Mr Tennakoon as the IGP.
My memory takes me back to 1979, to a moment etched in time when a strikingly tall and impeccably dressed military officer, a Master in charge of Cadeting at Prince of Wales College commanding a guard of honour presented to President J.R. Jayawardene by the cadets of 3CCC, consisted of Ananda, Nalanda and Prince of Wales Cadet platoons at the Prince of Wales College grounds.
An American national, who had been staying in Sri Lanka for nearly ten months without a valid visa while using a Sinhala name under his American passport, was arrested by the Tourist Police of the Kandy.
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The only orangutan held at the Dehiwala National Zoological gardens had passed away yesterday.
The Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena Organisation Ven Galagodaatte Ganasara Thera was today imprisoned for the third time.
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