The Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (11) instructed the education authorities to seek the assistance of pediatricians to diagnose diseases and problems of children in schools that have been closed due to the Kovid-19 epidemic.
The Tokyo Paralympic Games- 2020, scheduled to be held in Japan from 24 August to 5 September, for which the National Paralympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NPC) has fielded a nine-strong contingent of athletes, of whom seven athletes are from the Sri Lanka Army.
The Foreign Secretary also pointed out that the UN Human Rights Council has not been given the power to set up such a mechanism, adding that solutions are available for all the problems of the country within Sri Lanka’s domestic legal system.
Mr. Ajith Nivard Cabraal, who was appointed as the 16th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, received his letter of appointment from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (15).