Legal action will be taken against 117 quarantine rules violators who have been spotted by drones, Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said.
He said drones captured video images of a small percentage of persons gathered in groups and playing outdoors in isolated areas.
On Wednesday (18), 15 persons were arrested from Negombo and surrounding areas for not wearing face masks and failing to maintain social distance. This brings the total number of quarantine violators since the beginning of COVID second wave to 312.
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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