President Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed with a proposal from the Sangha Committee to appoint a competent authority to the Pali and Buddhist University.
He also emphasized that he will take immediate steps to make it the center of international Buddhist studies.
President Wickremesinghe held a special discussion with the Ven. Nayaka Theras of the Sangha Committee of the Malwathu and Asgiri Chapters at the President’s House in Kandy today evening where they discussed about the Pali and Buddhist University as well.
The President pointed out that the necessary rules will be changed to ensure the monks of the Pali and Buddhist University will obey the discipline of the respective sects in addition to the institutional discipline .
The President emphasized that the proposal made by the Ven. Nayaka Theras of the Malwathu-Asgiri Sangha Committee on the necessity of a quality restructuring of Piriven education must definitely be implemented.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena has been sent on compulsory leave pending disciplinary investigation over his failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings.
An interim order prohibiting Deshabandu Tennakoon from carrying out his duties as Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been issued by the Supreme Court.
The 22nd amendment to the constitution dealing with the term of the President has been gazetted by order of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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