President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued an extraordinary gazette notification declaring the Postal Service as an essential service.
The gazette comes as a large number of trade unions are preparing to launch an island-wide strike tomorrow (15) in protest against the government's tax policies.
The Government is finalising a list of names to be posted as heads of Sri Lanka’s missions abroad with ex-Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya assuming the position of Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.
Kandiah (Ken) Balendra, a veteran corporate leader and the first Sri Lankan chairman of John Keells Holdings (JKH) has passed away at the age of 85.
The CID has arrested Susantha de Silva, former Managing Director of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) for allegedly misappropriating 6.1 million rupees in 2014.
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