Indian fishermen accused that the Sri Lankan Navy yesteday allegedly damaged 10 boats of fishermen from Tamil Nadu after pelting bottles and stones on them at the highly sensitive area near their coast in Talaimannar. Rameswaram Fishermen Association President S Emirit said about 300 fishing boats were also chased away from near the Sri Lankan coast. Mannar District Fishermen Association President Albert Justin Goysa said from Talaimannar that the fishermen were fishing in Sri Lankan coast. According to Fisheries Department officials here, the fishermen in Jaffna had appealed to the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to take steps to end Indian fishermen fishing very near to their coast. Jaffna Fishermen Association President Anthony Emiliam Pillai had also informed the officials here that the atrocities of the Tamil Nadu fishermen had increased and they were violating IMBL norms and fishing near their coast. (PTI)
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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