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by Staff Writer 13-12-2018 | 9:08 AM
COLOMBO (News 1st) –
  1. A motion of confidence in Ranil Wickremesinghe passed in Parliament with a majority of 117 votes. Speaker informs President of the motion.
  2. The leader of PLOT and TNA MP D. Dharmalingam Siddarthan states that he believes that Ranil Wickremesinghe has handed in a written assurance of several promises to the TNA.
  3. Grade five scholarship cut off marks released
  4. The committee appointed to investigate the recent unruly behavior within the Parliamentary Chamber convenes.
  5. The two men who were arrested for transporting 231 kg of heroin in the seas off Beruwala were further remanded till the 20th of December.
  6. A silent protest organized by the Artists Association of the UNP was held opposite the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.
  7. Relatives of police officers hand in a letter to the Presidential Secretariat highlighting several concerns
  8. A severed human head was discovered at a cement factory in Peliyagoda INTERNATIONAL
  9. Theresa May survives confidence vote of Tory MPs.
  10. US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has lashed out at his ex-boss' "dirty deeds" as he was given a 36-month prison sentence.