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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.

 

 

External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L.Peiris having talks with Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Olugbenga Ayodeji Ashiru

A group of Sri Lankans visiting the Todaiji temple in Nara, Japan led by Deputy Minister Wijaya Dahanayake and Sri Lanka Agonsu Friendship Association Director General Somasiri Addarage Pathirana feed a herd of deer which flocked to the temple premises in search of food. Animals in and around the temple visit the temple as feeding them has almost become a tradition among pilgrims with traders in the vicinity providing a specially made biscuit to facilitate it. Picture by Saman Sri Wedage

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Asia group of NAM backing SL

Commission appointed to create closer amity between the communities:

Despite lobbying by the US and several Western states against Sri Lanka, the Asian group of the Non Aligned Movement yesterday expressed unreserved support for Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. The members of the Sri Lankan delegation to the UNHRC session in Geneva yesterday,

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Minister Peiris tells Nigerian FM:

Politicization of UNHRC harmful to developing world

“Countries emerging from painful conflicts and renewing their commitment to economic and social development after the eradication of terrorism, deserve understanding and sympathetic support from the international community, not judgmental attitudes buttressed by pressure which erodes the dignity and self-respect of developing nations, External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris said in the Nigerian capital, Abuja on Wednesday.

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Case against President dismissed by US Court

Recognizing ‘Foreign Policy interests’ in US - Sri Lanka relationship:

A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa noting that President Rajapaksa is immune from lawsuits as a sitting Head of State, states Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington in a press release. The court noted that Head of State immunity is a well-established legal principle in the United States.

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