The 2025 Grade Five Scholarship Examination is scheduled to be held on August 10, 2025.

The Department of Examinations has said it will accept applications from candidates from tomorrow (April 04) to April 30.

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has issued a Gazette notification stipulating the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) for bottled drinking water.
As per the Gazette notification, the MRP is effective from April 01, 2025.

Accordingly, the MRP for bottled drinking water are as follows;

500 – 999 ml bottles – Rs.70
01 -1.499 L bottles – Rs.100
1.5 -1.999 L bottles – Rs.130
02 – 2.499 L bottles – Rs.160
05 – 6.999 L bottles – Rs.350

(Newswire)

Colombo High Court Judge R.S.S. Sapuwida, today (April 03) sentenced an accused to death after being found guilty of drug trafficking and being in possession of 16 grams of heroin.

The convict was arrested by the Organized Crimes Prevention Division on February 26, 2019, in the Grandpass area while in possession of heroin.

The death sentence was imposed after concluding that the prosecution had proven both charges beyond any reasonable doubts.