EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

COLOMBO (News 1st)

Your Friday Morning Brief

1. The World Blood Donor Day is celebrated today under the universal theme “Safe blood for all”.

2. The Education Department of the North Central Province has decided to close 11 schools in the areas of Anuradhapura, Mihintale, and Thanthirimale until June 18th in view of Poson.

3. Sri Lanka Transport Board, Railway Department, and the National Transport Commission will implement a special transport plan for the Poson festival from today (June 14) until June 18th. 4. Two fire trucks were dispatched by the Negombo Fire Brigade to contain a fire that erupted at a private garment factory in Irabadagama, Pannala earlier this morning. 5. The Attorney General has instructed the Acting Inspector General of Police C.D.Wickramaratne to expedite and complete the investigations on 04 separate high profile cases including the assassination of journalist Lasantha Wickramatunge. 6. The US state department requests the US Senate to provide US$ 30 million in foreign military financing to support the department’s new security cooperation programs in South Asia. 7. The Chief Justice yesterday (June 13) granted the Attorney General permission to forward indictments against the accused in the Central Bank Treasury Bond Issue, to the Western Province Permanent High Court Trial at Bar.

8. The report compiled by the Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee looking into the Batticaloa Campus Private Limited is to be handed over to the parliament within the next week.

9. The Meteorological department predicts several showers in the Western, Southern, Central, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western provinces. 10. The 19th match of the ICC cricket world cup between England and West Indies will be played today at The Rose Bowl ground in Southampton, England.

HAVE AN AWARDING FRIDAY!