The maiden harvest of a green apple plantation in Sri Lanka was presented to President Ranil Wickremesinghe this morning (20) at the Presidential Secretariat.
The Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association proposed that the Committee on Public Finance and the Committee on Public Enterprises be given the powers to recover the money lost to the government from the officials who misused public funds, and from the officials and politicians who took decisions to do so.
The Parliament Children's Caucus focused on the need to formulate a national policy to ensure the well-being of children with special needs in Sri Lanka. Views on this regard were expressed when the Parliament Children's Caucus met in Parliament Oct (18) under the chairmanship of its Chairperson, Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna, Member of Parliament.
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu paid a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary Gen. Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte today (Oct 19).