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Please help Nethmini

Two and a half year old KW Tathsara Nethmini has profound hearing loss in both ears. She needs Cochlear Implant surgery which costs between Rs. 1.7 million and 2.8 million.

The surgery can be performed at the Golden Key Hospital - Rajagiriya according to Resident Consultant ENT Surgeon Dr. Sobitha Attygalle Abeyarathne.

The tentative date for surgery has been fixed for August 20. Financial contributions contributions can be made to the Bank of Ceylon, Maharagama branch A/C No. 70184706.

Further details can be obtained from Nethmini's father KW Gihan Hasantha on 0715277919.

Overstaying foreigners arrested

Twenty eight male foreigners overstaying in the country were arrested from a lodge in Maligawatta yesterday. Twenty five were Indians and the others Nepalese. Maradana police said the foreigners were aged between 21 and 35. They will be produced before Maligakanda Magistrate Courts today.

Investigations are continuing under the supervision of I.P. Jayawardena. SP

Bana at Gangaramaya

A Bana ceremony organized by Elrond Foundation in memory of dead and wounded soldiers and to mark the first year anniversary after ending the war will be held at the Gangaramaya Temple, Colombo 2 May 16.

It will be headed by Ven. Katawala Hemaloka Thera of Gampaha.

Several soldiers will be present at the ceremony.

Meditation program

A meditation program conducted by Ven Kiribathgoda Gnanananda thera will be held at the Kalutara Bodhi complex May 22 from 8 a.m.

Mark Vesak by desisting liquor, meat

The Lanka Knowledge Bank has planned to mark Vesak by launching a countrywide program to ask people to desist from consumption of meat and liquor during the Vesak week from May 24 to 30. The inaugural program will be launched from the Sri Jayewardenerama Viharaya, Borella on May 24, said Lanka Knowledge Bank Chairman Anura C. Perera.

Regi Siriwardena Memorial Lecture

Prof. Ranjini Obeyesekera, Anthropology Department, Princeton University (retired) will deliver the Regi Siriwardena Memorial Lecture to commemorate Siriwardena’s 88th birth anniversary at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8 May 15 at 5.30 p.m. The title of her lecture is “Translations: The Art of Attempting the Impossible.”

Siriwardena has been a teacher, journalist, literary and film critic, scriptwriter, translator, poet, playwright and fiction writer.

He served as International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) Editor for 15 years. His publications include Poems and Selected Translations (1993), Octet: Collected Plays (1995), The Lost Lenor (1996), Among my Souvenirs (1997), The Pure Water of Poetry (1999), and The Protean Life of Language (2001). He died on December 15, 2004.

Felicitation of Marist Brothers

The Old Boys’ Union of Holy Cross College Colombo Branch, Kalutara will be felicitating the community of Marist Brothers who served as Administrators and Teachers of the College from 1978 to 2009. The ceremony and lunch will be held at Samudra Hotel of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, 78 Galle Road, Colombo 3.

The ceremony will begin at 11.00 am on May 10.

Lecture

A lecture on ‘Thorium fuel cycle for clean energy and its relevance to Sri Lanka’ by Prof. G.S. Murthy, School of Chemistry Former Director and Nuclear Techniques Centre Coordinator will be held at the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka May 7 at 4.00 p.m.

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, and the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka are organizing the event. All are welcome.

Islamic finance conference

A one day session on Islamic Finance organized by Amana Global will be held at Hotel Galadari on May 12 at 7 p.m. followed by dinner.

The main presenter will be Mufti Hassaan Kaleem, a renowned luminary in the field of Islamic Finance.

AGM

The Annual General Meeting of St. Anthony’s College Old Boys’ Association Wattala will be held May 8 at Amanda Banquet Hall, 131 Wattala, adjoining the College.

'Buddhist Studies in US'

Professor Karma Lekshe Tsomo will deliver a lecture on "Buddhist Studies in the US" at the Royal Asiatic Society (Seminar Room, No 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mw. Colombo 7) May 9 at 10.15 a.m.

Professor Karma Lekshe Tsomo is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, USA and author of several books including Into the Jaws of Yama: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death and Out of the Shadows: Socially Engaged Buddhist Women in the Global Community.

Media conference

A Media Conference for Galle district Media Persons organised by the United Nations Information Centre, will be held at Aradana Hotel, Richmond Hill Road, Galle May 13 from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

National Media Officer, Mohan Samaranayake will be the guest.

Past Pupils' Association

The inaugural meeting of the Ambalantota Theraputta National College Past Pupils' Association will be held at the main hall on Sunday, May 16 at 10.00 a.m.

Principal Upali Rajakaruna invited all past students to participate in this event.

Two Pirivena students drown

Two students aged 16 and 17, studying at a Pirivena in Dedigama were drowned in the Kurugoda river yesterday. They were engaging in sand mining to repair the Pirivena. Ten Pirivena students had been helping in the construction of the Pirivena when the strategy struck. The bodies have been recovered. Dedigama police are investigating.