US $ 10.5 Million has been allocated to recommence the construction of Kurinchakerny Bridge facilitating the transport and business needs of approximately one hundred thousand residents in the Divisional Secretariat
Division of Kinniya in Trincomalee District. The revised agreement in order to allocate the remaining funds of the Peradeniya Badulla Chankaladi Road Development Project was signed by Mahinda Siriwardana, Secretary to Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and Abdulmohsen A Almudla, Director (Legal) of the Saudi Fund for Development.
Through the revised agreement, it is expected to transfer funds to be remained in the aforesaid project into Road Network Development Project and to mobilize the same towards construction of the Kurinchakerny Bridge. It is envisaged to provide solutions to,many transport difficulties by construction of this bridge, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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