The Ministry of Power and Energy has appointed a five member committee to look probe the Ceylon Electricity Board's (CEB) move to impose a sudden power cut in many parts of the island on Monday (3) without prior authorization.
The committee includes Sulakshana Jayawardena, Prof. Rahula Attalage and H. Samarakoon.
The committee will look into who was responsible for the decision to impose power cuts without informing either Minister Mahinda Amaraweera or the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka; the power sector regulator.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
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