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First Lady donates house to War Hero’s widow

Jayaweera Sugathapala Attanagalla special corr

First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa donated a newly built house to the widow of Naval Petty Officer K G Shantha who sacrificed his life in a battle with the sea tigers during war at a simple ceremony held at Udammita, Nittambuwa on December 16.

The house worth Rs 1.2 million was built by the Naval Engineering Division under the War Hero’s Welfare Fund initiated by the First Lady.










 

Bill passed with 91 vote majority

Parliament reporters

The Committee Stage debate of the finance head of the Defence and Urban Development Ministry on the Appropriation Bill was passed with a majority of 91 votes in Parliament yesterday.

One hundred and four members voted with the government while 13 members voted against.

TNA and DNA members voted against.

The UNP members were not present in the House at the time of the vote.

Carols

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in English, Sinhala and Tamil will be held at the Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7, on Sunday, December 18 at 6 pm. It is open to the public.

X’mas, New Year programmes

The Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7 has organised the following Christmas and New Year programmes.

Christmas

December 24 - Christmas Eve Service (English) - 11.30 p.m.

December 25 - Christmas Day Service (Sinhala) - 7.00 a.m., (English) - 8.15 a.m., (Tamil) - 11.00 a.m.

New Year’s Eve/New Year

December 31 - Watch Night Service - (English) - 11.30 p.m.

January 1, 2012 - New Year’s Day - (Sinhala) - 7.00 a.m., (English) - 8.15 a.m., (Tamil) - 11.00 a.m.

Exhibition

An exhibition of rare photographs of Sri Lanka by Dr S H Perera will be held from December 14 to 18.

The prize giving of the Moratuwa, Katubedde Janasetha-Kalaketha Public Library was held on December 14, 2011.

Moratuwa Mayor W Samanlal Fernando presided.

This library was selected as the best library of the Colombo district for the year 2010.

Public Day

The Ports and Highways Ministry has planned to conduct a Public Day at the ministry premises on the 9th floor of the ‘Sethsiripaya’ Battaramulla every Wednesday to attend to the welfare activities of police personnel in order to enable them perform their duties to the public in an efficient manner.

This follows a decision taken by the President to entrust the Deputy Minister of Ports and Highways Nirmala Kotelawala with the responsibility of formulating a special welfare programme for the benefit of the Police personnel to enable them perform their duties by the public efficiently, said a press release issued by the ministry yesterday.

Convocation

The convocation for the four year National Diploma in Engineering Science awarded by the National Apprenticeship and Industrial Training Authority's (NAITA) Katunayake Engineering Technology Institute will be held at the BMICH today at 2.30pm with the participation of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma.

About 346 students who entered the institute in 2006 for courses in Civil, Electronic, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering will receive certificates.

National Safety Day

National Safety Day will be held to commemorate victims of natural disasters on December 26. A two minute silence will be observed nationwide at 9.25am.

The main event to mark the day will take place in the Kaththankudi town, Batticaloa.

Knocked down pedestrian dies

Puttalam gorup corr.

A pedestrian knocked down by a lorry at Merawala on the Chilaw-Colombo road on Friday afternoon succumbed to his injuries at the Colombo National hospital after being transferred from Chilaw hospital on Sunday.

Army personnel injured in mishap

Amila Prabath Wanasinghe and Asoka Senaratne

Four army personnel were injured and admitted to the Anuradhapura Teaching and Mihintale Hospitals when the military police cab they were travelling along Mihintale-Pothana road ran off the road and toppled near the Mahakanadarawa wewa yesterday morning.