A Japanese investor has entered into an agreement with the Urban Development Authority (UDA) the revive the Floating market in Pettah, Colombo.
A Memorandum of understanding was signed between the Japanese investor Akira Hirose and UDA Chairman Nimesh Herath for the maintenance and management of the Floating Market.
Under the MOU the location is to be developed as a floating market complex aimed at attracting tourists within a six month period.
The floating market project was opened in 2014 by the then Secretary of the Defence and Development Ministry Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Rs 352 million was spent on the project with the objective of recovering 50 per cent of the expenses within five years, but the project failed.
It was reopened in April 2021 when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the President, after Rs 25 million was spent on the project, but it was a failure again.
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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