The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CP) has sent a reminder to the Power and Energy Ministry over an outstanding fuel bill arrears amounting to nearly Rs 90 billion.
The CPC has pointed out that the CEB has failed to pay up the bills and as a result the CPC was facing serious financial issues in providing uninterrupted fuel supplies to the CEB from this month.
The CPC pointed out that the CEB had exceeded the approved credit limit.
As a result, the CPC pointed out that its Board of Directors has decided to continue the fuel supply to CEB power plants subject to the settlement of 50 per cent of the monthly bills of CEB while increasing the credit limit upto a maximum of Rs 90 billion.
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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