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PS chairman held in bribery case

[July 05 2013]

Walallawita Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Udeni Atukorala was arrested by Bribery Commission officials for allegedly soliciting a Rs 1.5 million bribe from the Bentara Paradeshiya Sabha chairman. It is reported that he had accepted the bribe to provide a permit to transport soil.

 

Anti-Dengue programmes in Kelaniya schools

[July 01 2013]

Public Health Inspectors attached to the Kelaniya MOH Office have taken steps to launch anti-Dengue programmes in 20 schools under the purview of the Kelaniya MOH Office. The programme will be conducted on the instructions of Kelaniya MOH Dr Wasantha Rajapaksa.

 

Principal dies during training

[June 30 2013]

Raddolugama Pagnananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya Principal W.A.S. Wickramasinghe died following a stroke while exercising in the morning at the Rantambe Cadet Camp. Wickremesinghe, 52, was among the 97 participants in the month long military leadership training programme for school Principals.

 

Senior Minister leaves for Geneva

[June 28 2013]

Senior Minister for International Monetary Co-operation and Deputy Minister of Finance & Planning Dr. Sarath Amunugama will leave for Geneva tomorrow to represent the Sri Lankan Government at the Annual Ministerial Review of the Economic & Social Council of the United Nations

 

President unveils Buddha statue

[June 25 2013]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa unveiled a six feet Samadhi Buddha statue erected at the entrance to the Mihintale sacred area concurrent to the 2320 Mihindu Jayanthi commemoration. The President performed the first flower and oil lamp offering to the statue constructed by the Civil Defence Force (CSD).

 

Train crashes into parked lorry, one dead

[June 24 2013]

One died and four passengers were seriously injured when a train bound for Galle crashed into a lorry at Angulana . According to Police sources, the train was packed with rush hour passengers knocked the train when it was parked close to the railway track.

 

Man nabbed with ganja in bag

[June 21 2013]

A 31-year-old male, resident in Paththinigama, Galnewa was arrested by Galnewa Police on afternoon while carrying 1.508 kgs of ganja hidden in a travelling bag after alighting from a Colombo-Anuradhapura bus at Paththinigama junction.

 

 

President meets UN Chief : Warm welcome
President Mahinda Rajapaksa meeting UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon in New York yesterday. Picture by Sudath Silva

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Fitch affirms SLT at ‘B+’; Revises outlook to positive

Fitch Ratings affirmed Sri Lanka Telecom Plc’s (SLT) foreign currency issuer default rating (IDR) at ‘B+’ and revised its Outlook to Positive from Stable.

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Six persons on two motorbikes involved:

Pre-dawn heist of Rs 70 million

Robbery took place near teller machine:

A six member gang in motorcycles robbed Rs 70 million near a teller machine of a bank at Thelangapatha in the Peliyagoda police area at about 1.30 a.m. yesterday, Police spokesman SP Prishantha Jayakody said. The money had been brought to be deposited in teller machines in the area.

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Thai know-how for inland fishing industry:

President’s UN speech highly commended

World leaders attending the 65th UNGA Sessions in New York have highly commended President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his speech delivered at the UN sessions on Thursday.

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Analyst’s delays crowd prisons

There is a backlog of 400,000 cases in Courts islandwide and of them 17,000 are due to the delay in analyst’s reports, Justice Minister Athauda Seneviratne said. He was addressing employees at the Government Analyst’s Department while on an inspection tour together with Deputy Minister Reginald Cooray.

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Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission:

Thera calls for proper implementation of language policy

Sri Jayawardenapura University Chancellor and Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya Chief Incumbent Prof Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera yesterday said that Tamil people feel that they have been marginalized by the way the language policy is being implemented in the country.

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