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Pilot project to issue e-BMD certificates to Lankans overseas

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The government has announced a new initiative to issue copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates to Sri Lankans living abroad through Sri Lankan embassies, aimed at providing greater convenience to the expatriate community.

The program will be launched as a pilot project across seven selected foreign missions, including the embassies in Kuwait, Japan, and Qatar, and the consulates in Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada), Milan (Italy), and Dubai (UAE).

In Sri Lanka, efforts are underway to enhance the e-BMD (electronic Birth, Marriage, and Death) database system, which is jointly managed by the Registrar General’s Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This will allow birth, marriage, and death certificates to be issued through foreign embassies, following a model already in place for obtaining certificates at Divisional Secretariat offices across Sri Lanka.

In the initial phase, only the approximately 45 million birth, marriage, and death certificates that have already been scanned and stored in the e-BMD system will be issued.

These will include records for births, marriages, and deaths that have been registered since January 1, 1960. While the majority of these records will be available, there may be occasional delays in updating certificates that have been revised after their initial entry into the database.

(President’s Media Division)

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Fmr. PMD DG threatens photographer

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An investigation has been launched after a photographer of the Presidential Media Division (PMD) has lodged a complaint that he had received death threats over the phone by a former Director General of the PMD.

According to the complaint, he had been threatened on Nov. 11.

Several items of the PMD, including a drone camera, were found missing during a search conducted at the division’s facilities after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed office. An internal audit has also been initiated to investigate the matter.

Claiming he was aware that the photographer had been providing information regarding the missing equipment, the former PMD DG had allegedly threatened the former.

Kahathuduwa police is conducting further investigations.

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Met. Dept. warns of heavy rain tomorrow

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The Department of Meteorology warns of heavy thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and night (Nov. 14) in several areas due to a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal.

The Department of Meteorology warns of heavy thundershowers exceeding 100mm after 2 pm tomorrow, especially in the provinces of Central, Uva, Sabaragamuwa, and Southern Provinces as well as in the Kalutara area.

With the General Election to be held tomorrow, the public is advised to visit polling stations early in the day, before the adverse weather.

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