EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

Your Tuesday Morning Brief

1. According to the Police, steps have been taken to interrogate underworld kingpin "Makandure Madush" under detention orders.
2. Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake noted that search operations and raids will take place islandwide, especially in the Western and Eastern provinces.
3. The Ceylon Bank Employees Union has written a letter to the president requesting an investigation on a tender for the procurement of a core banking system for the National Savings Bank (NSB).
4. The police and the army raided a residence believed to be used to shelter and train terrorists in Blackpool, Nuwara Eliya.
5. The University Grants Commission declared that the institution named ‘Batticaloa Campus’ was not approved to conduct any type of degree programme.
6. The party leaders have agreed to go for an adjournment motion debate in Parliament today and tomorrow (May 07 and 08) to discuss the current plight of the country.
7. More than a kilo of gunpowder was discovered in close proximity to a school in the Kotagala, Hatton.
8. A 45-year-old was arrested in Millaniya while transporting 199 sticks of gelignite and 250 grams of ammonium nitrate in a car.
9. Nine of the ten Wellampitiya copper factory workers who were arrested and remanded over their suspected involvement in manufacturing bombs for the Easter Sunday attacks were released on bail yesterday (May 07).
10. A drug racketeer was gunned down in the Marawila on May 05th.

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