Cases have been registered against 14 persons in connection with an attack on inmates of a refugee camp for Sri Lankan Tamils at Perumalpuram near Kanyakumari on Monday night, The Hindu reported. An unidentified gang is said to have barged into the residence of Udayakumar and attacked the inmates, including his wife U. Jeeva Ranjani and brother Ravichandran, with iron rods. They were admitted to the Kanyakumari Government Medical College Hospital in Asaripallam. On the basis of a complaint lodged by Jeeva Ranjani, the police took into custody four persons for inquiry and registered cases against 14 others.
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.
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