The Customs has arrested one person while attempting to clear a parcel containing six kgs of Kush narcotics with a street value of Rs. 60 million.
The parcel has been sent from Canada and the detections was made at the Orugodawatta Customs inspection terminal by Customs Revenue Inspection Unit.
The cutoms officials said that Police Narcotics Division had sent a court order to them, theerfater both police and the officials Customs Revenue Inspection Unit held an ispection and detected the drugs.
PC: Indika Handuwala
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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