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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…

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…

LocalVen. Bhikkhuni An Dieu together with donors hands over dry rations to a beneficiary.Tags: Print EditionVen. Bhikkhuni An Dieu from Vietnam was in Sri Lanka last week to provide assistance to the most needy families living around…

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.…

LocalTags: Print EditionA new unit named as the “Counter Disinformation Unit” was launched by the President Media Division to coincide with the International Day for Universal Access to Information which falls on September 28 with the…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe first batch of the students following the diploma course at the Lake House Media Academy with Transport, Highways and Mass Media Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena, State Minister Shantha Bandara, Media…