COLOMBO (News 1st)

Your Friday Morning Brief

1. The Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board and the Board of Directors have been summoned to the COPE Committee today. 2. The 24-hour token strike launched by the Government Medical Officers Association to end at 8 am today. 3. A passenger ferry service from Colombo Fort to Union Place through the Beira Lake was launched yesterday under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. 4. 60 women who had endured various forms of abuse while being employed in Kuwait, returned to the country yesterday. 5. Thirteen suspects who were arrested for vandalizing Buddha statues in Mawanella were remanded once again till September 5th. 6. A man identified as Mohamed Rafaideen Mohamed Ali also known as Abu Ikram was arrested by Police in Ampara for NTJ connections. 7. Eight foreign women with visit visas who were engaged in prostitution were arrested in Kollupitiya yesterday. 8. Notice served on Prime Minister’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake to appear before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing fraud and corruption at State Institutions over the past 04 years. 9. E. A. Weerasena, Chief Financial Officer of the Election Commission in Sri Lanka said a cost of Rs 4bn has been estimated for any one of the upcoming elections. 10. Sri Lanka’s external sector has strengthened further in June this year, with a marked contraction in the trade deficit as imports declined and exports increased.

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