Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya is a man in the news these days with elections being the talk-of-the-town.
While it is well-known that he is constantly hounded by the media to get the exact date on when the next election will be held, what many don’t know is that it’s the question that he gets asked often by even strangers he encounter on a daily basis. In this case, it was literally, ‘the man-on-the-street’. “
“Recently I was caught in a traffic jam,” said Deshapriya, “and the man in the next car rolled down the shutter and shouted out to me ‘Comasaristhuma, kawada-da chandaya?’ (Commissioner, when is the election). I replied,’langadima, langadima’ (very soon; very soon)“, he told a group of women journalists he met this week.
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 Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
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.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
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