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Doing Lanka proud : All smiles
Midwife of Dimbulagala P D Lalitha Padmini who received Special
Recognition Award for dedicated service in Health at the Second
Global Forum on Human Resources for Health held in Bangkok
Thailand returned to the country yesterday. Here the midwife
with her family on arrival at the Bandaranaike International
Airport. Picture by Kumarasiri Prasad - Airport Correspondent. |
Lak Sathosa to purchase vegetables
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed Lak Sathosa Chairman Nalin
Fernando to start purchasing vegetables directly from the farmers and
make them available in all Lak Sathosa branches from today.
The Presidential directive came in the wake of soaring vegetable
prices in the local market mainly due to the exploitation by middlemen.
This decision will help minimize the middleman’s intervention in the
determination of prices of vegetables in the local market and the
consumers will have access to fresh vegetables at cheaper rates.
The Sri Lanka Army started selling vegetables at different locations
in Colombo city and the suburbs and they are more cheaper than
vegetables available in the market.
Pirates free Lankans
Two Sri Lankan fishermen taken captive by Somali pirates have been
freed, officials said.
Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Kenya Jayantha Dissanayake said that
two fishermen have been released and they will be sent back to Sri Lanka
on payment of air ticket charges.
The two on board the trawler named Lakmal 1, which set sail from
Beruwela, were distressed and came under Somali pirate captivity on
November 20 last year. Fisheries Department officials said the Somali
pirates had not asked for any ransom for the release of the two Sri
Lankan fishermen.
Rain displaces 21 families
Nihal Gamage
Heavy rainfalls in the Matale district have set 21 families displaced
with the danger of landslide in Salagama, Nagollagama, Pallepola and
Dimbulgamuwa Grama Niladhari Divisions during the past few days.
Matale Disaster Management Centre Co-ordinating Officer Indika
Ranaweera said that the DMC is making arrangements to provide essentials
for the displaced families with the assistance of relevant Divisional
Secretaries under the instructions of District Secretary K H A
Meegasmulla.
EPDP activist’s body found
Ratnasigham Sathees (31) an EPDP stalwart and the EPDP Organiser
Vadamarachy East has been killed. His body was found at Point Pedro
Maruthankerny road between Annai Vilunthan Junction and Vallipuramkovil
at an isolated and uninhabited road. His body was lying beside the motor
cycle he was riding. A deep injury was found on his head and there had
been severe bleeding.
The Army and the police are of the opinion that his death was due to
an accident and not as a result of being shot.
There are several conflicting reports about the cause of his death.
Teachers’ house burgled
The house of a couple from Chavakachcheri Meesalai who are teachers
had been burgled in broad daylight.
This was after they had left for school. The burglars had taken away
jewellery weighing 79 sovereigns.
Illegal sand mining
Mahaweli Systems Corr
A report from the Mahaweli Zone B has revealed that 15 people mining
river sand illegally, were arrested by police in Aralaganwila.According
to reports, illegal mining of sand could be observed in areas of the
Menike Ela creek, flowing through the Dimbulagala area, off Manampitiya
in Polonnaruwa.
Gandhi death anniversary held
The 63rd death anniversary of Mahathma Gandhi was observed in Jaffna
on January 30 by the All Ceylon Gandhi Seva Sanga. A Vadivel, President
of the Sabha presided.
The Gandhi statue installed opposite Jaffna Teaching Hospital was
garlanded by Vadivel. M Sathiyakeerthi Editor “Gandeeya”, M
Sathiyakeerthi Pirabalini Thanam, a Research scholar on the life of
Gandhi and several others of the Gandhi Sanga garlanded the statue.
Health camp
The Junior Chamber International Sri Lanka Gampaha (JCISL) Gampaha/Gampaha
Jaycees which contributes towards the development and recognition of
youth talent islandwide has organized a public health camp and flood
relief distribution program on February 6, Sunday at Kiran, Valachchenai.
Youth dies in explosion
A youth was killed and his friend was injured in an explosion.
This had happened when the two youth set fire to garbage which
contained a bomb.
Both the youths after setting fire to garbage waited a few distance
away and a bomb in the garbage had exploded killing Ramanan (19) and
injuring Rathan (20).
Rathan had lost both his legs.
Ramanan died at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Flood assistance
The Japanese Government has donated 26 million rupees worth of
assistance to Sri Lanka for distribution among the victims of the recent
floods.
Japanese assistance included a consignment of mattresses and camp
equipment.
These consignments of assistance were handed over by Japanese
Ambassador in Sri Lanka Kunyo Takahashi to Disaster Management Minister
Mahinda Amaraweera recently.
Fined
Homagama Magistrate and Additional District Judge Sumith Perera fined
Rs 10,000 on the cook of a hotel in Homagama town for serving a dish of
containing a dead lizard.
Buddha statue damaged
Asela Kuruluwansa
The head of a reclining Buddha statue at the Sri Sudarshanarama
Viharaya, Hepana Dawulugala has been damaged by treasure hunters in the
wee hours yesterday, according to a complaint made to the Dawulugala
Police by a resident bhikkhu named Ven Kotadeniye Narada Thera.
Dawulugala Police is conducting investigations.
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