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LocalTharanga RuwanpathiranaTags: Print EditionTwo officers of the Egoda Uyana Police in Moratuwa succeeded in pushing a shark into water on Thursday night. This shark that was washed a shore in the sea off Egoda Uyana was 7.5 feet in…

LocalRanjith Rajapaksa - HattonTags: Print EditionPrice of vegetables in the local market has gone up once again, vegetable vendors in Hatton said. This is due to the heavy rains experienced throughout the country in the past few days…

LocalSandhya KarunaratneTags: Print EditionIt has been reported that former President Maithripala Sirisena has tested positive for Covid-19. Infectious Diseases Hospital sources said that the former President has arrived at the hospital…

LocalText and pictures by PRIYAN DE SILVAThe cut gas tank where the heroin was found.Tags: Print EditionAmbalantota Police detected 25 kg of heroin at Koggalla, Ambalantota on Thursday succeeded in recovering another 3kg of heroin from a…

LocalGayan Kumara WeerasingheTags: Print EditionPolice have arrested three robbers who were fleeing together with the stolen money in a car, after threatening three youths from Mundalam came to Vavuniya Thandikulam on Thursday (29)…

LocalT.K.G. Kapila in KatunayakeTags: Print EditionCustoms Spokesperson Sudaththa Silva said that four passengers who were smuggling eight kgs and 500 grams of gold worth Rs.170 mn to Sri Lanka were arrested by the Customs Narcotics…

LocalAsela KURULUWANSATags: Print EditionTwo males were found dead inside a thirty five feet deep pit by the Walapane police yesterday (30). The deceased include Abeysinghe Banda (61), a father of two and Nuwan Kumara (45), residents…

LocalAsela KuruluwanshaTags: Print EditionThe President of the Allied Health Sciences Faculty Student’s Union of the Peradeniya University has been suspended from the campus over statements he made that damaged the reputation of the…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe prize giving ceremony for winners of the ‘Light of Asia’ contest organized by the Colombo Young Men’s Buddhist Association was held on September 17, at the Association’s Main Hall in Borella. Here, Master E.…

Remanded man languishes in prison for want of moneyLocalGayan Kumara WeerasingheTags: Print EditionThe Eheliyagoda Police arrested a suspect who raped and killed a 15-year-old girl, 13 years after the murder. The girl had been killed…