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Several senior officers including NW DIG transferred!

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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has given orders to transfer the North-Western Province Senior DIG, Puttalam DIG, Puttalam Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and Anamaduwa SP and Chief Inspector (CI) with immediate effect.

Accordingly, North-Western Senior DIG L.S. Pathinayake, Puttalam DIG S.M.Y.M. Senaviratne, Puttalam SSP Pushpakumara, Anamaduwa SP H.M.C.P. Herath and Anamaduwa CI Nilantha R. Bandara have been transferred with effect from March 28.

It was reported that this is the first time that a group of high-ranking officers, including a senior DIG, have been transferred with immediate effect at once.

However, police sources said that the reason for this transfer is the incident where a group of police Special Task Force (STF) officers assaulted a police constable attached to the Nawagaththegama Police at Alankulama in Anamaduwa on March 22.

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Gota’s national schools project, scrapped

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The government has decided to abolish the project launched under former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to upgrade 671 provincial schools as national schools.

Under the project, each school was allocated Rs.02 million – totaling over Rs.1340 million – for emergency renovations and new national school name boards, with some costing over Rs.500,000.

Schools have now been instructed to remove these boards, along with the “National School” title, official seals, and letterheads, and revert to their previous identities.

The initiative aimed to increase the number of national schools to 329,000, but only 05 schools in the Western Province were converted.

Professor Kapila Perera, Secretary of the Ministry of Education at that time, now serves as Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Highways.

(Source: Aruna)

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Gazette issued on 2026 Public & Bank Holidays

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The Government of Sri Lanka has officially declared the list of Public and Bank Holidays for the year 2026, through an Extraordinary Gazette issued on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.

The gazette issued is as follows : 

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Postal strike ends

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The Union of Postal and Telecommunications Officers says postal services will operate as usual today (May 31).

Secretary Manjula Jayasundara stated that striking union members returned to work from yesterday (May 30) afternoon, and distribution of over 2,000 delayed mail bags has begun.

This strike, launched over 10 demands including delays in recruitment, has reportedly drawn the attention of the relevant authorities.

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