A Party Leaders’ meeting has been summoned by the Speaker and will be held at 12 noon tomorrow at the Parliament, the Speaker’s media division said in a statement.
The meeting which was originally scheduled to be held at 10.00 a.m. tomorrow was rescheduled to 12 noon due to the Cabinet meeting to be held in the morning, the media release from the Speaker’s media division said.
The dates of debates on the reports of the PCoI on Treasury Bond Issuance and the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Frauds, Corruption and Abuse of Power are to be decided at this meeting.
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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