Police have warned motorists of the closure of selected roads in the Kompannaya Vidiya and Kollupitiya Police areas from tomorrow to March 11 due to laying of underground wastewater pipelines.
The roads will be closed in three stages temporarily.
The roads include the Sri Uttarananda Mawatha alongside the Beira Lake canal between Kompannaya Vidiya and Navam Mawatha.
Under the first stage the road between Nawam Mawatha to the railway crossing and Uttarananda Mawatha will be closed from February 5 to February 19.
In the second stage the Uttarananda Mawatha and Perahera Mawatha to Nawam Mawatha will be closed from February 20 to March 04.
From March 5 to March 11 the Uttarananda Mawatha and Perahera Mawatha to Rotunda gardens will be closed.
The underground wastewater pipeline is to be eventually connected to the Colombo Port city area.
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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