‘MERUWA’, ‘KETUWA’, KEPUWA’
LAL’S STRIKE CRASH-LANDS
* Worker
attendance exceeds 98 per cent
* People
went about their business
unconcerned
* Colombo
National Hospital reports surplus
staff
The ‘workers’
strike’ called by JVP top ranker Lal
Kantha who recently said the JVP
‘Meruwa’ “Kepuwa’ ‘Ketuwa’
(‘murdered, cut, carved’) those who
snitched against the JVP Deshapremi
Movement of the 80s, petered out
yesterday without any visible worker
participation at all.
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Hubby on strike; Maihtri at work
Prof. Maithri
Wickremesinghe, wife of Opposition
Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe reported
for duty as usual at the Kelaniya
University despite the so called
‘island-wide’ strike called by
certain trade unions and
organizations led by the UNP, JVP
and TNA against the Government.
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Mihintale MV student is World
New Inventor
K. P. D. A. C.
Kapuge, a grade 13 student of
Mihintale Maha Vidyalaya has won the
first prize at the World New
Inventors Competition held in
Phoenix, Arizona in the United
States for the invention he
submitted as Sri Lanka’s entry.
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Siyam Nikaya
260th Anni. :
President to attend ceremony in
Kandy
A state ceremony
to mark the 260th anniversary of the
establishment of the Siyam Nikaya
Upasampada will be held at the
historic Maha Maluwa of the Sri
Dalada Maligawa in Kandy at 3 p.m
today under the patronage of
President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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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. 
