The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has instructed the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) to enforce legal measures on over 2000 illegal constructions in the district.
While calling on the CMC to take legal action against illegal lands, houses and businesses that are operating in the area, the COPA also instructed the CMC to submit a report on the measures it has taken to remove such constructions from 2012 to 2016.
These instructions were included in this year's first COPA report which was tabled before Parliament by COPA Chairman Lasantha Alagiyawanna yesterday (Feb 21).
Instructions were given to a total of 19 state bodies in the report.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
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.
The Presidential election will be held on September 21, the Commission of Elections has decided.
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