The S-Presso is fitted with a driver-only airbag, achieved zero stars for adult occupant protection and two stars for child occupant protection.
There is no place for zero-rated cars in the Indian market but the car is marketed in Sri Lanka flagged as a mini-SUV.
(Source: Yahoo! Sports)
Addressing press conference held in the Opposition Leader's office today, Opposition SJB MP Harshana Rajakaruna said that present Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa as the Minister of Cultural Affairs had started the renovation of historic Deegavapi stupa in Ampara district on 31 August 2019. He further pointed out that the then Minister allocated Rs. 853 million for the project.
The MP said that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremoniously started the same renovation project of Deegawapi stupa on November 11, 2020.
In April 2019, the cabinet approved a proposal presented by Minister of Housing, Construction and Cultural Affairs Sajith Premadasa to procure the special type of bricks required to re-construct the Deegavapi stupa.
Deegavapi is a Buddhist sacred shrine believed built by King Saddhatissa. It was declared an archaeologically protected monument in 1947.
Sri Lanka Minister of Transport Gamini Lokuge said that Sri Lanka Army would start the printing of driving licenses in Sri Lanka since January 2021. The cabinet of Sri Lanka decided on 01 July 2020 to hand over the contract to Army under the direction of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka Army has established a Centre for National IT Solutions to cater to the future national-level IT projects in the country.
The Minister stated that the purpose was saving money. He said that a large sum of money was spent by the Ministry for printing driving licenses from the private sector.
Audit reports revealed that Sri Lanka Motor Traffic Department had paid over Rs. 9 billion to a private company from 2009 to 2017.
Three of the five COVID-19 deaths reported today (November 13) so far occurred at home while another person died before hospitalization.
An 83 years old woman from Colombo-14, a 78 years old male from Colombo-13 and a 64 years old man from Colombo-13 died at home. Another 69 years old male from Rathmalana died before hospitalization.
High blood pressure, diabetes, asthma and heart attacks have been cited as the causes of death.
Meanwhile, a 68-year-old male resident of Chilaw died at Mulleriyawa hospital due to high blood pressure and stroke.
The total of COVID-19 deaths in Sri Lanka is 53 now.
Mechanic Rajitha Udawatta, the family's primary visa holder, passed away in September, leaving his wife Florence and three of their four children in a precarious position, Daily Mail Australia reported. Udawatta died due to bowel cancer the day after his 50th birthday.
Rajitha Udawatta belonged Sinhala majority community of Sri Lanka and the family have not sought political asylum.
The family do not want to return to Sri Lanka and their neighbours in Kempsey in New South Wales have rallied around their desperate fight to stay.
Udawatta's eldest daughter Hirushi, who is training to become a chef, is able to stay in Australia on a student visa. But Ms Udawatta will have to return to Sri Lanka with her other children Ruvish, 17, Jeniffer, 8, and Duane, 7, if the family lose their appeal to stay.
"Family is here because we can't feel that we are Sri Lankans when we are here. We are just like Australians," Ms Udawatta said to Daily Mail Australia. "So, our dream is to stay here."
Raj Udawatta migrated to Australia in 2014 and his family joined him two years later. He was diagnosed with bowel cancer and passed away in September 2020.
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Randeniya further said that some Sri Lankans who had signed agreements with the employers were waiting to go to South Korea. The Sri Lankan expatriate workers in South Korea whose job agreements are expired now must be brought to Sri Lanka to facilitate the others to go there.
Over 1,000 Sri Lankan workers whose contracts have expired are waiting for flights to return to Sri Lanka, sources say.
Twenty-three thousand Sri Lankans work in South Korea now.
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's elder brother and Minister Chamal Rajapaksa said to media that the cabinet had approved providing a suitable place to bury the dead bodies of Muslim persons who die with COVID-19. The Minister said that the decision had been taken at the last cabinet meeting held on Monday.
Meanwhile, Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that the cabinet had discussed the issue but not taken such a decision. He highlighted that no decision had been taken to change the present policy of cremating all COVID-19 dead bodies.
However, government MP Premnath C. Dolawatta said that he had complained to the acting Inspector General of Police against the letter by Ceylon Thawheed Jamath thanking the government for granting permission for the burial of the COVID-19 dead bodies of Muslims. He said that the letter was causing communal disharmony.
Sri Lankan civil society is silently but strongly marking their protest against the government's inhuman forcible cremation of a 20-da...
