SSP’s wife remanded

The Crime Division conducting investigations into the alleged assault on Malabe SLIIT student Nipuna Ramanayake yesterday produced Shyama Priyadharshini Perera, wife of former CCD Director Senior SP Vaas Gunawardena, before Kaduwela Additional District Judge Mahanil Prasantha de Silva and remanded till August 31.

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President envisions:

Subsidy free country

“The people in my country will no longer depend on subsidies and the local Government institutions should not be offices from which these subsidies are disbursed,” said President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Over 59,000 families resettled in past months

Eight welfare centres established in Jaffna:

Re-settlement and Disaster Relief Services Minister Rishad Bathiudeen told Parliament yesterday the Government has re-settled 59,608 displaced families in Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Mannar, Ampara and Jaffna Divisional Secretariat (DS) divisions during the past few months.

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The Epic Lanka Group has developed a solution to protect payment card information to prevent fraudulent transactions in the country. Credit cards are also a popular mode to withdraw money from ATMs. Here a customer uses a credit card to withdraw money from an ATM in Fort. Picture by Saliya Rupasinghe