EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

Your Thursday morning brief

1. The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing fraud and corruption over the past four years has advised the Ministry of Agriculture to hand over documents regarding the importation of dairy heifers.
2. Two homicides in the Gampaha district.
3. A drug dealer who was was selling Heroin using a mobile payment method was arrested in Horana.
4. A petrol station in Kothalawala, Kaduwela was robbed by two masked men on a motorbike.
5. Government doctors attached to Uva province hospitals were engaged in a strike.
6. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at the Parliament roundabout to disperse a protest march organized by the Student’s Collective of the University of Sabaragamuwa last evening.
7.  Several opinions regarding the estate workers were shared as the expenditure head of Ministry of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development was debated in parliament yesterday.
8. A building located on Main Street, Pettah caught fire yesterday.
9. Police arrested a 33-year-old for impersonating an Astrologer and an Ayurvedic Doctor using fake identification.
10. Mohammad Siddeek Mohommad Siyam who was taken into custody after he was deported from Dubai has been released following interrogations.