During a special operation launched by Navy and Sri Lanka Coast Guard (SLCG), over 183kg of Kerala cannabis was recovered in the seas north of Kankesanthurai in Jaffna, yesterday, Navy said.
58 cannabis parcels packed in 04 sacks had been cast-off about eight nautical miles north of Kankesanthurai by the racketeers due to the failure to smuggle them into the island and the street value of the stock is believed to be over Rs. 55 million.
The haul of cannabis had been destroyed and the entire operation was conducted adhering to healthcare guidelines, Navy said.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
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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