Quick Look

Appalling cruelty

S. A. L. Niroshana

A lorry transporting 21 buffaloes without a valid permit was seized by Police at Kahawatta on Thursday night.

The driver and cleaner were taken into custody.

Police said 11 buffaloes had died of suffocation at the time of detection.

Snatch thieves disappear with cash, jewellery

Two men wearing helmets and masks had snatched a handbag containing Rs. 3,031,600 and jewellery from a woman returning from a bank as she was alighting from a threewheeler taxi near her house at Pinwatta Panadura and sped away, according to a complaint made to the Panadura police by the victim. Investigations are continuing.

Robbery at MV

Puttalam Group Corr.

Property and equipment worth Rs 19,000 was robbed from the office room of the Aracchikathuwa Attanganaya Maha Vidyalaya on November 10 night by thieves who had entered the room from the roof according to a complaint made by Principal D.M. Ananda Kumara.

Chilaw police are investigating.

Church blood donation

The Evangelical Society of All Saints Church, Pettah will hold a blood donation campaign tomorrow at 174, Bodhiraja Mawatha, Colombo 11 from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

This is to be held in view of the 100th Anniversary of the church.

Grand Feast

The annual grand feast and Shazuliyyah Mashaikh Mouloodh Manakih Thamam of the Panadura Thotawatte Rawlathul Athkiyya Jummah Mosque will be held at 6.30 pm today.

Sithijayen Obbata at Royal College

The Art Circle of Royal College, Colombo will hold its 14th All Island Annual Art Exhibition, titled Sithijayen Obbata (beyond the horizon) at the National Art Gallery on November 14 and 15 from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Rampala Memorial lecture

The 'Eng. B.D. Rampala Memorial Lecture 2009', organized by the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL), on the theme 'Railway Development and Intermodal Cargo Transport', will be delivered by Retired General Manager of Railway W.K.B. Weragama at the IESL's Wimalasurendra Auditorium, in Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7, on November 16 (Monday), at 5.30 p.m.

Cashew cultivation in Galewela

Matale district group corr.

The Sri Lanka Cashew Corporation will launch a cashew cultivation program in the Galewela Divisional Secretariat area.

In the first stage 25 acres will be utilised with the participation of 78 growers while a high yield cashew variety will be distributed among growers.

Allocations for electricity projects

Sena Edirisinghe North Western Province Roving Corr.

Allocations have been granted to the Ceylon Electricity Board by the Nation Building Ministry under the Rural Development Program for 433 proposed Electricity Projects in 14 electorates in Kurunegala.

Drug addicts increasing in Dambulla

Matale district group corr.

Addiction to ganja is increasing in Dambulla to alarming proportions causing hardships to the public.

Police along with the Matale district excise unit have rounded up some places and arrested three persons with 11,000 mg of ganja. They were produced before Dambulla magistrate and District Judge Nimal Ranaweera and fined Rs. 17,000.

Schools to be separated into boys and girls

Asela Kuruluwansa and Indika Polkotuwa

The Peradeniya Junior Secondary Vidyalaya and the Peradeniya Wimaladharmasuriya Vidyalaya which are mixed schools at present will be transformed into a boys school and girls school respectively.

The Central Provincial Councils Education Ministry is considering this prosibility following recommendations made by Education officials to attract more students to there schools to ease the pressure on schools in the Kandy city, said Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake.

Shortage of drugs

Gamini Samaranayake Kandy Roving correspondent

The shortage of drugs at the Government district hospital at Menikhinna in the Kundasale Divisional Secretariat area, has inconvenienced out-door patients. More than 300 out-door patients visit this hospital daily for treatment.

Roads lack standard

M. Nelson Piyaratne Kataragama group

Concrete roads in Kataragama have not been constructed to proper standards, the residents in the area have alleged. They say these roads are uneven and not properly levelled. Therefore vehicles travelling on the roads are liable to skid off. Gutters of either side of the roads have not been constructed. Some roads look like dams as they have been constructed above the land level and these lands are inundated on rainy days.