Floating armoury report to AG
Huge forex loss, illegal procedures likely focus:
The probe report on the suspected illegal arms
deal racket of the Avant Garde and Rakna Araksha Lanka security
firms has been handed over to the Attorney General, but government
officials were tightlipped on who were being lined up for further
investigations and possible criminal prosecution. According to
Police Spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara,
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Rs 600m embezzlement case :
Bhikkhu Ex Presidential Advisor grilled
The Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID)
questioned former Presidential Advisor Ven. Watinapaha Somananda
Thera in connection with a Rs. 600 million embezzlement case. The
Thera, one of the advisers on Buddhist Affairs to former President
Mahinda Rajapaksa was yesterday questioned from 8.30 a.m. to 3.00
p.m.
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Tipped for Thailand post :
Ex - UN envoy Kshenuka to be exonerated?
The Foreign Ministry will submit a report to the
Parliament’s High Posts Committee on former Foreign Secretary and
former Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Kshenuka Seneviratne, likely
to exonerate her of charges with regard to ‘Genevagate.’ Seneviratne
was mired in controversy over the alleged awarding of a contract to
renovate her official residence in Geneva, to a company based in
Zurich with alleged links to the Liberation Tigers. She is currently
serving as an Additional Secretary overseeing economic affairs at
the Foreign Ministry.
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Urgent talks to win back former JVP leader
No conspiracy behind Amarasinghe quitting JVP –
Vijitha Herath:
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will hold
urgent discussions with the party’s former leader Somawansa
Amarasinghe to persuade him against his publicly-announced decision
to form a new political party, top JVP sources said. The JVP is
serious about having the former leader within the party fold and
will hold discussions, party Propaganda Secretary and senior
parliamentarian,
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TNA unable to register alliance
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is faced with
problems in registering the four-party alliance as a political party
with the Elections Commissioner (EC). The TNA is an alliance of four
Tamil political parties with the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF)
as the main party and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Front (TELO), the
People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the
Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) being the
others.
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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. 
