Southern Province Governor Keerthi Tennakoon has signed the gazette notfication to dissolve the Southern Provincial Council with effect from midnight.
Governor Tennakoon told Times Online that he had signed the gazette since the five-year term of the Provincial Council would end at midnight.
Following this move, the total number of dissolved Provincial Councils stands at seven. The term of the Western Provincial Council will end this month while the Uva Provincial Council's term will end in September.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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