President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is scheduled to visit the Lankagama site skirting the Sinharaja forest on an inspection tour today (29), said Environment Minister Mahinda  Amaraweera, giving an assurance that the incident that arose in Lankagama would be managed while protecting the environment and resolving the people’s issues.

Minister of Power Dallas Alahapperuma tabled the report of the interim committee appointed by the Electricity Minister to probe the total power outage occurred in the national  electricity supply on August 17 in parliament yesterday

The Parliament approved the proposal made by the Speaker of Parliament Hon. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, to appoint MPs for 06 committees as its members.

Several Australian supplied hand-held Chemical Detection Devices were presented to Acting Inspector General of Police, C D Wickramaratne on 27 August by Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka David Holly and Australian Federal Police Detective Superintendent Rob Wilson.