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  • Over 1 mn eligible to vote in Kurunegala district
    Some 1,315,715 people in the Kurunegala district are qualified to vote in a forthcoming election.There are 14 electorates in the district. There are about 30 Divisional...
  • AIDS awareness for school students
    All senior school students countrywide should be educated on sexually transmitted diseases that are fast spreading in the country. About 2,300 education programmes on AIDS...
  • Elephant kills farmer
    A paddy farmer was killed by a wild elephant yesterday in the Galgamuwa area of the Kurunegala district.The deceased has been identified as H.G. Premaratne (47), an unmarried...
  • Fraudster held on return
    Bingiriya Police arrested a man who had allegedly defrauded 50 businessmen in the Kurunegala district of a total of Rs. 20 million, at the Katunayake Airport, when he...
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  • Remanded for abusing boy
    A man who abused an 11 year-old boy was remanded till June 20, by Kurunegala Chief Magistrate Sampath Hewawasam.When the boy was returning home after attending a funeral, the suspect had taken him...
  • NCPA chief roots for day care centres
    National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) Chairman M.M. Abeyratne said that the NCPA is to forward a proposal to the government to set up day care centres in all private and government organisations...
  • Bad weather affects over 1,200 in Kurunegala
    Kurunegala District Disaster Management Centre has confirmed that about 1,284 persons (377 families) in the Kurunegala District have been affected by the recent heavy winds and rains. About eight...
  • Visible internal disputes in SLPP - Akila
    About 200,000 people found to have been deprived of Samurdhi benefits in the past due to political reasons, would be given the due benefits again soon, said Kurunegala District UNP Parliamentarian,...
  • Twelve years’ RI for murdering wife
    A man who strangled his wife, causing death, was sentenced to 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment by Puttalam High Court Judge A.K.M. Patabendige yesterday. The man, K.D.H. Bernard Appuhamy of Kalpitiya...
  • Campaign to plant one million jak saplings
    A campaign to plant one million jak saplings countrywide has been planned by the Agriculture Ministry on June 11.According to the instructions of Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, hybrid jak...
  • Fined for brewing hooch
    A large-scale illegal liquor manufacturer who pleaded guilty was fined Rs.250,000 and his assistant who supported him to manufacture the hooch was fined Rs.35,000 by Kurunegala Chief Magistrate...
  • New system to promote government school principals
    A new system to promote government school principals by awarding marks for their performance, achievements, and their students’ results at public examinations, would be introduced shortly by the...
  • 172 deaths due to train accidents in 2018
    The Railway Department has confirmed that about 172 persons have died in train accidents in January. During the first three months of this year, 169 persons died in train accidents.The latest Railway...
  • Remanded for assaulting mother
    A man who assaulted his mother with a club on Vesak Full Moon Poya in the Galgamuwa police area was arrested by police, while on the run. The suspect was produced before Galgamuwa Magistrate L.T....
  • School vans to increase charges
    School vans drivers will increase transport charges by eight to ten percent, after the recent fuel price hike.The proposed increase will come into effect from June, Secretary to the All Ceylon Inter...
  • Graduates to fill public sector vacancies
    Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed all ministries to inform him about the number of vacancies that exist so that they could be filled by graduates, said Education Minister and...