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Youth held for abusing teenager

[June 14 2013]

A youth was arrested by Akmeemana Police for allegedly abusing an underage girl of Haliwala in Akmeemana, Galle. Police investigations reveal that the youth had a love affair with the minor and molested the girl.

 

Electricity projects in Uva

[June 13 2013]

The Uva Provincial Council has provided electricity facilities for 4,966 households in the Mahiyanganaya Divisional Secretariat area between August 2010 and June 2013. The Provincial Council will provide electricity for 947 more houses to reach the target.

 

Foreign brand cigarettes seized

[June 12 2013]

Customs detected two container loads of cigarettes of a foreign brand valued at nearly Rs 4.5 million, illegally imported to the country on the guise of importing unaccompanied baggage of Sri Lankan expatriate workers in Dubai,

 

Anacondas from SL Zoo to India

[June 11 2013]

Chicks, frogs and fish will top the menu for the young anacondas that will be brought from Sri Lanka to the Mysore Zoo in India. Zoo officials have decided to place additional orders for the supply of chicks at the poultry farm, Kudappanakkunnu. The zoo will get seven green young anacondas from Sri Lanka.

 

Indian Police nab 14 Lankan refugees

[June 06 2013]

Indian Police on Wednesday arrested 14 Sri Lankan refugees, who allegedly had plans to illegally sail off to Australia from Kochi, from a lodge near the Ernakulam KSRTC bus stand.

 

Lankan arrested with gold biscuits in Chennai

[June 05 2013]

Indian customs officials at the Chennai airport seized four gold biscuits each weighing 100 grams from a Sri Lankan passenger, who had reportedly concealed them in his underwear. The four gold bars were carefully wrapped in black paper making it impervious to scanning and were stuffed in his underwear,

 

Fire in forest reserve

[June 04 2013]

At least five acres of forest was destroyed when a sudden fire broke out in Ravana Forest Reserve in Ella Police area. The police had managed to cease the fire being spread further more in the area also identified as “Punchi Siripade”.

 

Heavy rains to continue

[June 02 2013]

Heavy showers can be expected in the coming days over many parts of the country since the South West monsoon is now active, a spokesperson for the Meteorology Department said.

 

 

Islandwide protests condemning the US backed resolution against Sri Lanka continued yesterday as well with more people taking to the street to express solidarity with the President and the government. Picture by Saman Sri Wedage

External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris meets Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabzai at the Prime Minister’s Office in Kampala on Tuesday.

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Prof G L Peiris tells Ugandan government:

External meddling will hamper SL’s progress

Sri Lanka entitled to far ampler space, time to continue domestic process:

External intervention at this time is singularly unhelpful and will indeed inflict grave damage on a sensitive internal process which is moving forward, External Affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris said in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday.

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US NGO-triggered protests holding-up India’s energy plans - Indian PM

American NGOs fund the protests that hold India back from building the nuclear reactors it needs to meet fast-growing energy needs, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in an interview published in Science magazine on Friday. Among the plants suffering delays is the Kudankulam power station in Tamil Nadu, which was due to open last year.

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Inflation still at single digit level, growth 8.3 pc

The Sri Lankan economy is estimated to have grown by around 8.3 per cent in 2011, recording the second consecutive year with an annual growth rate of 8 per cent or above for the first time in the post-independence history. Year-on-year inflation has remained at single digit levels in the last 37 months,

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Northern cultivation boom brings bumper paddy harvest

The government expects a bumper harvest of nearly 1.5 million metric tonnes of paddy from cultivation areas during this Maha season. Co-operatives and Internal Trade Ministry Secretary Sunil S Sirisena told the Daily News that this was a result of several thousands of acres in the North and East being brought under paddy cultivation after the end of the three decade war.

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