The Department of Pensions has informed the President that it has completed depositing funds for the pensions due to paid on July 10.
The Department has stressed that while there won't be any delay in the paying of the pensions for about 99.5% of pensioners, there might be a small percentage who are due to receive their pensions from rural banks and societies who will be issued their pensions on July 11 instead of 10. This is owing to the two-day strike conducted by public sector trade unions. As a result of the trade union action, the Divisional Secretariets did not function on July 8 and 9.
The Pensions Department has revealed that more than Rs. 28 billion in funds necessary for the payment of the pensions have been deposited in banks.
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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