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Your Thursday Morning Brief

1. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has been recommended to be awarded an honorary title by the Sri Lanka Amarapura Maha Nikaya.
2. The Department of Meteorology says that thundershowers can be expected in Western, Central, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Uva, North Western and North Central Provinces.
3. Governor of the Western Province Azath Salley says, he is awaiting the recommendations of the Public Service Commission on what steps need to be taken regarding the Municipal Commissioner of Colombo.
4. Yet to make a final decision on presidential candidate - MR
5. Dimuth Karunaratne has been appointed captain of the Sri Lankan ODI team and will lead Sri Lanka during the upcoming World Cup.
6. President Maithripala Sirisena in Tirupathi to obtain blessings
7. Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera is in New York to represent Sri Lanka at the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Forum on Financing for Development.
8. The Saudi Arabian government has agreed to provide a concessional loan of US$ 49.9 million for a project to establish a fully equipped Faculty of Medicine at the Sabaragamuwa University.
9. A tragic accident on the Mahiyangana-Badulla main road resulted in ten deaths.
10. A total of six, including a cousin of notorious underworld leader “Makandure Madush”, who were recently arrested in Dubai, were deported to Sri Lanka.

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