NEW CSN SCAM UNVEILED
A senior public official in the ports sector,
under the previous government is under investigation for a massive
tax fraud, involving the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) channel,
police sources told the Sunday Observer. CSN reportedly bought
television equipment worth £ 14,0000 from Arena Television in
Reddhill, Surrey.
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TNA’s promise to Swaraj
To work with government:
TNA leaders promised to work with the government
to find a political solution acceptable to all communities in Sri
Lanka, when they met the vising Indian External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj yesterday. The Indian High Commissioner Y.K.Sinha told
the media at Hotel Taj Samudra,
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Yoshitha’s arrest, not unfair – Duminda Dissanayake
SLFP General Secretary and Agriculture Minister
Duminda Dissanayake said those who had no idea about the law were
saying the arrest of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second
son, Yoshitha Rajapaksa was a gross injustice but the issue of
Carlton Sports Network (CSN) was discussed since January 8 last
year.
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Constitutional Reform Committee sittings:
Where are the youth?
Over 1,500 proposals have been submitted to the
Public Representation Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PRCCR),
Chairman, attorney-at-law Lal Wijenayake said. This was the total
number submitted as far as written submissions via mail, email, fax,
social media, personally handed over to the Secretariat and at the
public sittings in the four districts in 12 days.
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Eknaligoda’s disappearance:
Four more arrests imminent
The Criminal investigation Department(CID)
investigating journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda’s disappearance, is set
to arrest four more Army intelligence personnel connected to the
incident in the coming days, authoritative CID sources told the
Sunday Observer. Already six people of the Army intelligence unit
have been arrested,
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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. 
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. 
