The decision taken to close all liquor stores will remain in place said the Deputy Commissioner of the Excise Department Kapila Kumarasinghe in a statement.

The Postal Department has granted an additional grace period for payment of expired traffic fines.

The International Day of Vesak and the 20^th anniversary of the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution 54/115, which recognized internationally the day of Vesak, was commemorated today at a special virtual commemoration organized by the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva together with the Permanent Mission of Thailand to the UN Geneva and the International Buddhist Foundation in Geneva.

SL Navy held two persons with diving gear which had been stored without a permit for diving, on a temporary hut built in shallow waters, during a search operation carried out in the sea area off  Walaipadu.