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CPC to introduce LP gas cylinders Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) Chairman Daham Wimalasena said yesterday that the Corporation plans to release Liquid Petroleum (LP) gas cylinders to the local market in a bid to challenge the monopoly in the gas market. If the Corporation is able to complete initial infrastructure requirements, domestic gas cylinders will be released to the market within this year, he told our sister paper the Dinamina. He identified the shortage of gas cylinders, filling machines and financial difficulties as the obstacles the Corporation is facing in its latest move and called for Government assistance. Currently the Corporation produces 50 tons of LP gas per day which is bought by the Shell Gas Company. Injured elephant suffering in canal A wild elephant seriously wounded by trap gun shots is suffering in a muddy canal beside the Ritigala mountain. The animal is unable to walk as a result of sustaining a gunshot injury on its left foreleg. The animal has also sustained several other injuries. The elephant has been roaming near the village of Kaluebe near the Ritigala Forest. A team of wildlife officers led by Dr. Tharaka Prasad, Assistant Director of the Wildlife department has treated the animal on several occasions. He says that the elephant's condition is very serious. However, the man-elephant conflict has been existing in the Ritigala area for a long time. People in the villages of Kirikkulama Kalu Ebe, Alagollewa say that the elephants come to their paddy cultivations, Chena cultivations as well as to settlements and destroy them. Most of the instances where wild elephants are killed are reported from this area. World Hindu Conference in Colombo The second World Hindu Conference organized by the Ministry of Hindu Religious Affairs will be held from May 2 to 6. This Conference will have delegates, religious dignitaries and observers from all over the world. At the request of Minister T. Maheswaran, L. M. Razeek, Airport Manager, Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd, will be providing all the necessary facilities at the Airport for the delegates and religious dignitaries arriving in Sri Lanka to attend this Conference. These facilities will be available to them during their inward as well as outward journeys, states a Ministry of Hindu Religious Affairs press release. Army DMI operative shot ead A soldier of the Army's Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) was gunned down on Saturday afternoon at Kohuwela by an unidentified gunman Ashok alias Lingasamy Devarasa, a former LTTE cadre turned army informant was shot dead when he went to a nearby boutique with his wife and the young son. Ashok was an operative of the Army's deep penetration unit and was provided special security following the recent murders of four other members of the DMI. Police said the gunman had escaped in a three-wheeler after shooting Ashok at point-blank range. Ashok died on admission to the Kalubowila Hospital. |
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