After a day-long closure on Monday owing to devastating bomb blasts in the capital (Colombo) and outside on Sunday, the Colombo Stock Exchange said trading will resume on Tuesday.
A 15-hour curfew was lifted at 6 am on Monday but would be re-imposed at 8 pm on Monday night and lifted on Tuesday morning. More than 290 people died in the ferocious attacks by suicide bombers on three churches and three hotels across Sri Lanka. The attacks were blamed on a radical Islamic extremist group. – ENDS -
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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