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Commonwealth BF, a unique platform to promote
investments:
BOI signs USD 2 billion project agreements
Project agreements to the value of US$ 2 billion
were entered into with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) on
infrastructure and mixed development at the conclusion of the
recently concluded Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF). According to
the Progress Report 2013 by the Investment Promotion Ministry, the
CBF, Sri Lanka’s largest ever business event since independence has
served as a unique platform to promote investments into the country
and led to the signing of major investment projects.
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Govt spends Rs. 2.7 b on 37 million school text books
The Government has spent Rs.2.7 billion to print
37 million school text books to be distributed among students in
state schools next year. Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said
printing and distributing school text books for over 10,000 schools
in all nine provinces including the North and the East by December
was a complex process.
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‘TNA continues anti-govt propaganda’
The TNA is continuing its anti-government
propaganda by taking advantage of its status as the people’s
representatives, disregarding the fact that it was President Mahinda
Rajapaksa’s commitment to restore democracy in the terrorism-torn
province that helped hold the election, Minister of Mass Media and
Information Keheliya Rambukwella told the Sunday Observer.
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President Rajapaksa to attend funeral
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected to
attend South African president Nelson Mandela's funeral next week.
The President accompanied by External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L.
Peiris will travel to South Africa on their return from a
pre-planned official trip to Kenya from December 10 to 14, official
sources said.
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Public transport to avoid arrest:
Sharp increase in cannabis users
The growing number of cannabis users, has now
resorted to trafficking the drug illicitly using public transport to
avoid arrest, a spokesperson for the National Dangerous Drugs
Control Board said. “This trend has been seen in recent years as the
number of cannabis users has increased islandwide”, Assistant
Director NDDCB Ms Badhrani Senanayake, told the Sunday Observer.
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President Maithripala Sirisena is in Thailand making a three-day official visit and attending the second Asia Cooperation Dialogue Summit. The Dialogue Summit that brings together 34 nations in the Asian region takes place from October 8 -10 in Bangkok under the theme "One Asia, Diverse Strength".
Official level discussions have commenced between Sri Lanka and Iran on reviving trade agreements that were signed between the two countries and will be put into operation soon after ironing out technicalities, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Rishad Bathiudeen said. 
Pakistan on Friday (September 30) officially postponed the 19th SAARC Summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 9 and 10. A new set of dates for holding the Summit will be announced soon through the Chair of SAARC (Nepal), reports said. 
Due to the prevailing drought, water levels of the main reservoirs have dropped to half its capacity, with authorities warning that drastic measures may need to be taken if water is to be continuously released from the reservoirs for power generation. 
To avert a possible dengue outbreak in the next three months, when the number of mosquito breeding sites are likely to surge with the monsoon rains, the Dengue Control Unit of the Health Ministry will launch an island-wide Dengue Control Week starting on Tuesday, September 27 to Monday, October 3.
Sir Richard Jolly, former Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, and Special Adviser to the Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (1996 to 2000), and Principal Coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report will deliver a lecture on, “Development: Can Sri Lanka be a model for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs)?” on September 28 at 5 pm at the BMICH Committee Room D, on the invitation of the Gamani Corea Foundation. 
Richmondite Charith Asalanka joined the elite band of school cricketers by winning the coveted Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year 2016 title for the second year in succession emulating the feats of former Sri Lankan greats Arjuna Ranatunga, 1980/82' ( Ananda) Roshan Mahanama, 1983/84'(Nalanda) Thilan Samaraweera 1994/95' ( Ananda) 'Lahiru Peiris 2004/2005 (St.Peter's) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa 2010'2011 (Royal) who had also won the award twice .
Cricketing legend and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will grace the occasion at the 38th Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year awards night scheduled to take place at the Galadari Hotel on September 20. 
Stern action will be taken against traders who sell sugar above the controlled price of Rs. 95. Instructions have been given to the relevant authorities to launch island-wide search operations, a press communique from the Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake said. 
Refuting speculations, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said, no decision has been taken to impose power cuts on account of the current dry spell in the country. 
