Official Languages Minister Mano Ganesan has said that the circular instructing the removal of Arabic street name boards has been issued to the relevant authorities.
Accordingly, he said that these authorities will take swift measures to act upon this circular and remove such name boards which violate the law.
"As a common policy, we can't allow street name boards to be printed in any other language other than English, Sinhala, and Tamil," the Minister said.
However, he noted that permission must be sought in order to print a street name board in any other language.
Mr. Ali Sabri Rahim, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Puttalam District whom an open warrant had been issued, attended a public ceremony at Al Aksha National School in Kalpitiya today (16) as the special guest of honor.
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.
The 22nd amendment to the constitution dealing with the term of the President has been gazetted by order of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Auspicious times widely followed by candidates keeping with traditions will be taken into consideration by the Election Commission in fixing the date and time for the conduct on the Presidential polls.
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted policy approval to change the wording “exceeding six years” in paragraph (b) of Article 83 of the Constitution to “exceeding five years” with reference to the President’s tenure.
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