The hearings of the petitions filed against the 20th Amendment to the Constitution has been concluded by the five-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court today.

Sixty-nine contacts of the Divulapitiya COVID-19 patient have been tested positive for COVID-19 infection.

Buses will only be allowed to carry passengers according to their seating capacity, State Bus Transport Services Minister Dilum Amunugama said.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, yesterday, denied allegations that the Auditor General’s powers would be reduced by the proposed 20th Amendment.

Police Curfew also imposed in Veyangoda Police area until further notice according to the Government Information Department.

The National Freedom Front (NFF) says that three points contained in the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution should be amended.

The Ministry of Education says the second term holidays beginning from tomorrow will apply for private and international schools as well.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says ensuring national security is the first and foremost responsibility of the government.

The 16-year-old daughter of the apparel worker from Divulapitiya, Minuwangoda, has also tested positive for COVID-19, said Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.

The Ministry of Education says all schools in the island will be closed from tomorrow.

The garment factory, in which the female who tested positive for COVID-19 in Minuwangoda was employed at, has been closed indefinitely.

An indefinite police curfew has been imposed in Minuwangoda and Divulapitiya police divisions following the finding of a COVID-19 patient from Divulapitiya, police say.

A 39-year-old female garment factory worker from the Divulapitiya area tested positive for Covid-19 at the Gampaha Hospital, the Government Information Department said today.

The Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday questioned as to how the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had released suspects it had earlier claimed were directly linked to the masterminds of the Easter Sunday terror attacks without subjecting them to judicial process.

Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando says he has found himself in a sorry state when then-President Maithripala Sirisena called him from abroad and asked him not to attend a meeting chaired by then-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, after news broke that terrorists had struck on Easter Sunday last year.

The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) has recovered a consignment of heroin from Koswatte area in Dankotuwa.