More than 362,900 persons of 96,670 families have been affected by floods in Batticaloa, the latest official reports said on Tuesday. According to the Disaster Management Centre, 635 houses have been destroyed while 2498 houses have been partially damaged due to the floods in 14 Divisional Secretary Divisions in Batticaloa. Meanwhile, the Disaster Management Centre reports that eight families have been evacuated to safer places in Walapane, Nuwara Eliya due to heavy rains.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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