Families of missing persons will receive a monthly relief payment of Rs 6000 from October 10 this year.
These funds would be deposited to their bank accounts on the 10th of every month, a joint cabinet proposal by the Finance and Social Progress Ministries stated.
Meanwhile, the Registrar General's Department would be instructed to issue Certificates of Absence for the families of missing individuals to ease the process of claiming these payments.
These proposals had been made in line with an interim report submitted by the Office on Missing Persons. Cabinet approval for this project had been granted yesterday (Sept 3).
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 Presidential election will be held on September 21, the Commission of Elections has decided.
The former leader of the New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and the New Left Front and well-known figure in left-wing politics in Sri Lanka, Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne, passed away at the age of 81.
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