For one of the 16 SLFP MPs who voted for the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the National New Year celebrations were in New York.
He boasted to his friends there that he told President Sirisena he was leaving for the US and he had replied “gihilla hondata avurudu kaala enna” or go and enjoy Avurudu and come back.”
One of those who heard the man said that the MP was a lucky man. He is a Green Card holder in the US, perhaps the only one who could sit in Opposition benches or in a lovely mansion in New Jersey.
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
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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