Six newly appointed Provincial Governors took oaths before President Maithripala Sirisena earlier today at the Presidential Secretariat.
The details of newly appointed six governors as follows:
HMGS Palihakkara - Northern Province Governor
Austin Fernando - Eastern Province Governor
BMRA Perera - Sabaragamuwa Province Governor
Surangani Ellawala - Central Province Governor
PB Dissanayake - North Central Province Governor
Attorney-at-Law MP Jayasinghe - Uva Province Governor
Earlier, Mr K.C. Yogeswaran, Mrs. Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake and Mr. Hemakumara Nanayakkara were sworn in as Governors of Western, North Western and Southern Provinces respectively.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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