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Over 100 towns across Sri Lanka have boycotted the sale of cigarettes with the aim of making the country tobacco-free, the Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the Public Health Inspectors Union launched several programmes across the country to educate locals on the ill effects of smoking and as a result, shop owners and businessmen in many towns stopped selling cigarettes. Twenty-two towns in Jaffna, 17 towns in Matara and 16 towns in Kurunegala joined others in boycotting the sale of cigarettes. Currently, 107 towns are part of the drive, Xinhua news agency reported. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, while expressing satisfaction over the numbers, said they hope to increase these figures to 200 in 2019. The Sri Lankan government in recent years has taken several ...

The Vice Chancellors of state universities have expressed agreement with the set of proposals provided by the government to resolve the SAITM (South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine) issue and requested the students of the medical faculties to return to academic activities. The vice chancellors of all state universities in a joint statement said the proposals presented by the Commission appointed by the President Maithripala Sirisena to resolve the issue regarding the medical faculty of SAITM can be accepted as a series of reasonable and positive proposals. The Vice Chancellors said after extensively studying the announcement issued by the Director General of Government Information on October 29, 2017, they have decided that the set of proposals can be accepted as a positiv...

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Over 100 towns in Sri Lanka stop cigarette sales

VCs of state universities agree to government’s solution for SAITM issue, request students to resume academic activities