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Improving public awareness and control of risk
factors vital:
Lankan stroke victims among the highest in the world - Health
Ministry
The number of stroke victims in Sri Lanka is
among the highest in the world and is likely to reach frightful
levels in the future, President, National Stroke Association of Sri
Lanka (NSASL) Dr. Udaya Ranawaka said. Dr. Ranawaka told the media
on World Stroke Day,
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President will win forthcoming polls - Forbes Magazine
The prestigious Forbes investment magazine
published in USA said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa will win the
next Presidential election, and added that the bar against a third
term for President Rajapaksa being removed, has resulted in
political stability. This political stability has been cited as a
reason to invest in Sri Lanka.
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Ministry calls for urgent attention :
Implement disaster management guidelines, Regional plantations
told
Regional plantation companies have been asked to
take immediate steps to implement the disaster management guidelines
by the National Building Research Organisation (NBRO), the state
disaster watchdog in the aftermath of Wednesday’s landslide tragedy
in Meeriyabedda, Haldummulla.
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Second Reading of Budget passed with a majority
The Second Reading of the Budget 2015 was passed
in Parliament yesterday with a majority of 100 votes. The
Appropriation Bill received 157 votes in favoure and 57 votes
against. The UNP, DNA and the TNA members voted against which was
taken by name.
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Seventeen hostel projects for varsities already built
Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake told
Parliament yesterday that Rs. 6,159.1 million had been approved from
2006 to 2013 to build 38 hostel projects in national universities.
Of them, 17 projects have been already completed while construction
work on other projects is now in progress.
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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. 
