Everything you need to know today

by Staff Writer 24-01-2019 | 9:27 AM

COLOMBO (News 1st) 1. The Parliament is to convene at 10.30 AM today (Jan 24). 2. Police investigators believe that the heroin seizure on Tuesday (Jan 22) is to have originated from Turkmenistan. 3. The Supreme court ordered former Chief justice Sarath N. Silva to appear before the court on the 7th of February over charges of contempt of court. 4. Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday (Jan 23) to provide a statement regarding an ongoing investigation. 5. Parliamentarian Lasantha Alagiyawanna has been appointed as the Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) unanimously. 6. The Police Narcotics Bureau was granted permission by the court to detain and question the suspects of the Colpetty drug bust. 7. Two compartments of an express train bound from Vavuniya to Colombo detached from the engine yesterday (Jan 23). 8. Army Nalaka, who is a suspect in several murders and thefts, has been arrested in Peliyagoda yesterday (Jan 23). 9.

The gazette notification for admission at the National College of Education (NCoE) will be released tomorrow (Jan 25).

10. SriLankan Airlines has posted a net loss of Rs. 40 billion during a nine-month period that ended on the 31st of December 2018.