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News in Pictures
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| The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign
Employment(SLBFE) entered into an agreement with the Open
University of Sri Lanka(OUSL) to conduct a special training
course on elder care giving for Sri Lankan job seekers in
foreign countries.Here, SLBFE chairman Amal Senadhilankara
and OUSL Vice Chancellor Dr. Vijitha Nanayakkara exchanging
the agreement in the presence of Foreign Employment
Promotion and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera. |
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| British High Commissioner to Sri
Lanka John Rankin visited the Sahasak Nimavum Exibition held
at the BMICH yesterday. The exhibition was organized by the
Sri Lanka Inventors’ Commission (SLIC). SLIC commissioner
Deepal Sooriarachchi, Technology and Research Ministry
officials were also present. Inventors from various parts of
the island exhibited their inventions under various
categories. Picture by Sarath Peiris |
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| Youth Affairs and Shills Development
Minister Dullas Alahapperuma gets a little girl to do the
honours when he opened the Gunadiya Dahara drinking water
supply project in Barigama, Kuliyapitiya recently.
Provincial Minister Gunadasa Deliygama is also in the
picture. |
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| A dance item performed by the
students of Nalanda Balika Vidyalaya, Minuwangoda to mark
World Children’s Day. Picture by Smantha Weerasiri |
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| A Deshabhimani Punya Matha awards
ceremony to honour mothers who produced sons who rendered
honourable service to the nation was held under the
patronage of Prime Minister D M Jayaratne’s wife Anula Yapa
Jayaratne at the BMICH, Colombo on September 27. A batch of
122 mothers who produced great sons to the motherland
received Deshabhimani Punya Matha awards at the ceremony.
Here, Sumana Bandu Silva, mother of Major General Shavendra
Silva, receives the award. |
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| Public Relations and Public Affairs
Minister Mervyn Silva has made arrangements to provide an
electronic arm to Rashmi Nimesha of Dehiowita Deloluwa
Junior School who obtained top marks at the Year Five
Scholarship Examination. Nimesha has no arms but only one
leg, which she uses to write on her exercise books. |
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A robber gang responsible for several
robberies and other crimes in Batticaloa for a considerable
period was arretsed by Batticaloa Police on Monday. Police
also recovered gold jewellery, electrical goods and other
stolen items valued at nearly Rs 400,000 from their
possession. The suspects weer due to be produced before the
Batticaloa magistrate yesterday. Pictures by Batticaloa
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