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  • Petition filed for limited competitive exam
    Three persons had submitted a petition to Southern Provincial Galle High Court Judge Manjula Thilakarathna, pleading for a Writ of Mandamus directing the Southern Province...
  • Avant Garde suspects bailed
    Southern Provincial Galle High Court Judge yesterday ordered the release of former Store Keeper of the Avant Garde floating armoury, Colonel Don Thomas Albert Wijethunga and...
  • Archaeology Commissioner General provisionally released
    Galle Chief Magistrate Nishantha A. Peiris yesterday ordered to provisionally release the Commissioner General of Archeology P.B. Mandawala after he appeared before the...
  • Deputy PS Chairman granted bail in assault case
    Galle Chief Magistrate A. Nishantha Peiris released the Deputy Akmeemana Pradeshiya Sabha (PS) Chairman on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000, along with a Rs. 10 million surety,...
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  • Train hits motorcyclist at railway crossing
    A motorcyclist who attempted to creep past the railway crossing at Rathgama, Galle hit by an express train passing the location yesterday.The gate of the railway crossing was closed for the train...
  • Two homicide suspects sentenced to death
    Galle High Court Judge Manjula Thilakarathne imposed capital punishment on two of nine suspects involved in a homicide case, in which a person had been hacked to death.Punchihewage Sirilal and...
  • The medical camp in progress. Picture by Mahinda P. Liyanage, Galle Central Special Correspondent.
    Health camp for Southern state employees
    Suva Saviya, a health camp on non-communicable diseases for government employees of Southern provincial ministries, departments and affiliated institutions and agencies, was held at the Provincial...
  • Suspects released on Rs. 15,000 cash bail each
    Galle Additional Magistrate Asanga Hettiwatte released one male and three female second-year students attached to the Higher National Diploma in Information Technology (HNDIT) University in Galle,...
  • Councillors condemn Vijayakala’s alleged statement
    A group of Southern Provincial (SP) councillors staged a demonstration to denounce a statement allegedly made by Child Affairs State Minister Vijayakala Maheshwaran at a state function held in Jaffna...
  • Human traffickers imprisoned
    Three persons were sentenced to one-year imprisonment by Galle Chief Magistrate Nishantha Peiris for attempting to smuggle 54 persons to Australia.The convicted were Abuhan Mohamed Faizer,...
  • Officials led by NDDCB Chairman Prof. Saman Abeysinghe participating in the campaign against drug abuse. Picture by Mahinda P. Liyanage
    ‘Many schoolchildren addicted to narcotics’
    Many schoolchildren use narcotics and many of them are addicts, National Dangerous Drug Control Board (NDDCB) Chairman Prof. Saman Abeysinghe said.He was addressing the gathering at the launching...
  • Southern Province Chief Minister Shan Wijayalal De Silva awarding a certificate to a graduate. Picture by Mahinda P. Liyanage, Galle Central Special Corr.
    Ayurveda Dispensing Course graduates felicitated
    A group of 39 selected assistants attached to Ayurveda drugstores and institutions affiliated to the Ayurveda Department, who had successfully completed a three-month Ayurveda Dispensing Course, were...
  • child drowns in temple pond
    A three-and-a-half-year-old child drowned in a pond in the premises of Nigrodharama Temple in Kokwatte in Habaraduwa, police said.The victim was identified as Kalahe Lokuge Senuja, a pre-school...
  • Father, son sentenced, fined for murder
    Galle High Court Judge Manjula Thilakaratne sentenced a father and a son to seven years’ Rigorous Imprisonment, including a fine of Rs. 5,000 and two years’ RI, including a fine of Rs. 5,000...
  • Two prisoners escape from Court cell
    Two detainees held in Court cell at the Balapitiya Court had escaped breaking the cell gate around 4.30 am yesterday.The Court cell is operated by the Galle Prisons and at the time of the escape,...
  • Indian arrested for defaulting hospital bill
    An Indian who did not pay his hospital fee of Rs. 449,666 due to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital (KTH) was arrested on a complaint made by the Hospital Director, Galle police said.The Indian had...