The United Postal Trade Unions’ Front will launch a 48-hour token strike from midnight today (7).
Co-convener of United Postal Trade Unions’ Front Chinthaka Bandara said that the intent of the protest was against the government’s decision to sell the postal offices in Kandy and Nuwara Eliya.
Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena announced this morning that plans to hand over the Nuwara Eliya Post Office, an iconic building, to the Taj Samudra Hotel as a hotel project are underway.
Meanwhile, the Postmaster General said that leave of all postal workers cancelled on November 8, 9 and 10.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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