Everything You Need To Know Today

COLOMBO (News1st) - 1. The general public requested to hoist the National flag for a week from the 01st of February in line with the 71st Independence celebrations. 2. Collective agreement on estate workers salaries signed at Temple Trees amidst protests from estate sector trade unions. 3. The Attorney General's Department has started a special study on the legalities in deploying the tri-forces for combating drug trafficking in Sri Lanka. 4. The group including two US nationals and an Afghan national who were arrested over the possession of a large haul of drugs in a luxury housing complex in Colpetty is due to be presented before the Fort Magistrates Court today (January 29). 5. Chairman of the elections commission Mahinda Deshapriya says that he will resign from his position if provincial council elections are not held prior to the Presidential election scheduled for November or December.  6.  The Sena Caterpillar menace spreads to paddy cultivations in Nochchiyagama. 7. The Department of Meteorology forecasts an increase of 40kmph in the wind speed across the island today (January 29) and tomorrow (January 30). 8. A 50-year-old has been arrested in Imbhasiddi, Point Pedro with over 86 kg of Kerala Ganja. 9.  Two suspects were arrested from Kurunegala for the possession of 37.5 liters of illegal alcohol and a foreign manufactured hand grenade. 10. The leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya, Udaya Gammanpila says that an agreement has been signed to set up a US military base in Sri Lanka without the consent of the President.

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