The deadline for exchanging defaced currency notes with banks has been further extended by three months till March 31, 2018, following instructions given by President Maithripala Sirisena to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Previously, the Central Bank decided that payments should not be made in respect of willfully defaced or altered currency notes after December 31, 2017. After that date all willfully defaced and altered currency notes will be held by the Central Bank and they would not be exchanged by any commercial banks,
According to the Monetary Act No. 58 of 1949, legal action cold be taken against persons responsible for willfully defacing or altering currency notes and punishment meted out to them.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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