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  • ‘School van charges up 5 percent’
    School van charges would be increased by 5 percent on September 25 due to the recent diesel price hike, All Ceylon Schoolchildren's Transport Service Association President...
  • Drunk drivers fined
    Additional Kurunegala Magistrate Namal Perera fined 11 motorcyclists and three-wheeler drivers Rs.9,500 each, for driving under the influence of liquor.The suspects, who had...
  • Dilan challenges Prof. Rohana
    SLFP Deputy Chairman Dilan Perera challenged the SLPF General Secretary Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa to take disciplinary action against the members of SLFP groups of 16...
  • Liquor distiller receives six months’ RI
    Chief Magistrate Sampath Hewawasam jailed a suspect who pleaded guilty to distilling illicit liquor, to six months’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) suspended for 10 years, and...
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  • Pharmacy burgled: suspect held
    Police arrested a man who had allegedly burgled a pharmacy in Nikaweratiya, on Tuesday.The suspect had stolen Rs.29,000 in cash, as well as drugs and other goods. Police had discovered the suspect...
  • Teaching hospital proposed
    It was proposed that the Kuliyapitiya Hospital could be converted into a teaching hospital for Wayamba University students, and that its reconstruction work should be handled by the Central...
  • Vocational training for 25,000 school leavers
    The National Apprentice and Vocational Training Authority will train 25,000 school leavers this year and interviews to recruit them will start from October 1 and will be held till September 25 at 9 a...
  • Over 65,000 drug addicts to be rehabilitated
    Over 65,000 drug addicts will be rehabilitated as per the instructions of President Maithripala Sirisena and of them 10,000 will be rehabilitated this year, President's Task Force Anti-drug Unit...
  • Sharp drop in coconut prices
    Coconut prices had dropped recently, with a fruit being sold at Rs.25. A coconut was previously priced at Rs.65.It had been a result of the excessive coconut kernel imports, Kurunegala Coconut...
  • Sexual assault cases on the rise in NWP
    Cases of sexual assault on underage girls had been on the rise in the Kurunegala and Puttalam districts during the past seven months. Most of the assaults had been carried out at rest houses.Four...
  • Pharmacist selling intoxicants arrested
    A pharmacy owner at Ibbagamuwa in Kurunegala was arrested with 50 intoxicating tablets last week by Gokarella police.The suspect had confessed the tablets were to be sold to senior schoolchildren of...
  • Suspects nabbed with carabeef, venison
    Three suspects were arrested with 5kg of carabeef and venison, while they were transporting it by van in Kurunegala, on Tuesday.A gun and ten cartridges too, were taken into custody along with the...
  • Rs.10,000 bonus for SLTB employees: Abeysinghe
    Kurunegala District UNP Parliamentarian and Deputy Transport Minister Ashok Abeysinghe said the Transport Ministry had decided to provide Rs.10,000 Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) employees as bonus...
  • Nabbed for alleged molest
    A 17-year-old schoolgirl studying for her G. C. E. (A. L.) Examination, had been allegedly molested by her 42-year-old uncle, recently. The incident had allegedly occurred when the girl had been...
  • Poachers nabbed with venison
    Nawagattegama Police arrested three poachers possessing firearms along with 10 kilograms of venison, near the Thabbowa Forest Reserve, yesterday.The suspects, each aged 48, are residents of Nelliwewa...
  • Model village for artistes
    Housing and Construction Minister Sajith Premadasa had planned to set up a model village with 25 houses, for senior artistes in Kurunegala, recently.It would be set up at Maho, Yapahuwa, and a seven-...