President Ranil Wickremasinghe who is in the UK to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II visited the London Buddhist Vihara, the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe. He is seen here offering pirikara to the Head Monk Most Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala Thera, Chief Sangha Nayake of Great Britain who also attended the funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday representing the Buddhists in the United Kingdom. President Wickremesinghe left for Colombo this afternoon.
In the wake of the ‘outing’ of parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala with accusations that his PhD was fake, there has been a flurry of articles on fake degrees.
An eighteen member Presidential Task Force, including President’s secretary was appointed today to implement the ’Clean Sri Lanka’ initiative proposed by the government.
Under the government’s initiative of disposing of high end- luxury vehicles that impose a heavy burden of public funds, other state institutions are barred from purchasing them through state procurement procedure, according to a Treasury circular.
An investigation has been launched on the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya into an incident where popular author Kasun Mahendra Heenatigala was arrested and allegedly mistreated by the Athurugiriya Police.
Mr. Gihan de Silva has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the Government Information Department announced.
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