2012 January | Lanka Journal

9 OIC‘S Transferred With Immediate Effect

Nine Officers-in-Charge of Police stations have been transferred to other stations according to the statute of Police.

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Social Services Dep. Minister Injured In Accident

Social Services Deputy Minister, Chandrasiri Sooriyaarachchi was wounded in a car accident this morning at Habarana,.

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6 Hour Water Cut In Kandy Tomorrow

A 6 hour water cut will be in effect on the 27th of January in the Kandy municipality area.

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Report On Prison Riot Due Tomorrow

The special three-person committee which was set up to probe the Welikada Magazine prison riot will deliver their report by tomorrow.

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New Ayurvedic Degree May Lead To Fake Registrations

Requests have been made by the Government Medical Officers Association to amend the new syllabus for the Ayurvedic Degree in the country.

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14 Treasure Hunters Remanded

A group of people who were engaged in treasure hunting at a reservation at Ulpatha in the China Harbor have been detained by the Police Special Task Force.

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Basil Comments on Indo-Lanka Ties

The Minister Economic Development, Basil Rajapakse stated yesterday that the bond between India and Sri Lanka is strong due to the various progress made to develop the economy in both countries by participating in number of affairs relevant to trade and commerce.

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Wrong addressee? Large stash of cocaine arrives at UN HQ

Police in New York have seized two bags containing 16 kg of cocaine at the UN’s mail center. The unusual shipment had been sent from Mexico City and apparently was not intended to end up at the global organization’s headquarters. In a statement on Thursday, a spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said two suspicious [...]

January 27, 2012 | Posted in World | Read More »

Twitter to block tweets locally, not globally

Twitter said today that it will withhold tweets from a country when there are local restrictions rather than having to block them globally. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” the company wrote on its blog. “Some differ so much from our [...]

January 27, 2012 | Posted in Tech. | Read More »

Formar SL captain slams Sri Lanka sacking of coach Marsh

Legendary Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Thursday slammed his country’s sacking of Australian coach Geoff Marsh as “disgraceful” and “unprofessional.” Marsh was this week replaced by South African Graham Ford. The move followed Tillakaratne Dilshan quitting the captaincy on Monday. Former skipper Mahela Jayawardene was brought in to lead the team to Australia for [...]

January 27, 2012 | Posted in Local,Sports | Read More »

Asath Salley accuses petitioners of being corrupt

UPFA member of the Colombo Municipal Council Asath Salley says the councillorswho petition against him are the ones who are corrupt. Mr. Salley says it is him who had first refused to work with such corrupt councillors. He was commenting to ‘Srilankamirror’ about thecouncillors who had handed over a petition to the president seeking disciplinary action against him. Mr. Salley said he extended his support to the president [...]

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Govt. misusing EPF monies for its development work says UNP

The UNP has accused the government of using the monies from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to carry out its development agenda. UNP parliamentarian and head of the JSS, Dr. JayalathJayawardena has said that EPF monies were being excessively used to construct a 35-story luxury building inNarahenpita. He has said that using EPF monies to construct such a building was illegal and undemocratic. Dr. Jayawardena has called [...]

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Complaints Regarding Bus Tickets Increases

The Sri Lanka Transport Board stated that the number of complaints received by the public with regards to the non issuance of bus tickets to passengers has increased. It is compulsory that a bus ticket is issued to all passengers of the bus. However even after the conductors of buses, especially in the Western Province [...]

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Van Catches Fire Killing Four

4 people have died and 7 people have been injured when a van travelling from Beruwala to Handa Paangoda caught fire at Elamodara on the Kalutara Horana Main road during the early hours today. According to Police Spokesman SP Ajith Rohana, the cause of the fire is yet to be established but added that they [...]

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