A special cabinet meeting is to be convened at 6 pm today (Sept 27) to discuss the ongoing railway strike, State Transport Minister Ashok Abeysinghe said.
The trade union action entered its second day today, with employees claiming that the government had not increased their salaries by Rs 3,000 as claimed by the Finance Ministry.
Against this backdrop, the Railways Department has said that eight office trains had been in operation today.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
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.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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