A group of naval personnel attached to North-western Naval Command recovered 630 kilograms of Glyphosate enclosed in 21 sacks and concealed in a scrub at Keeramundam in Kalpitiya yesterday following a tip-off, Navy said.
Accordingly, 1500 packets of D-Era Glyphosate and 4800 packets of Anu 71 Glyphosate each weighing 100 g were recovered by the Navy. As per recently revealed information, Glyphosate is used to mix with manure in agriculture. The seized items were handed over to Registrar of Pesticides Department of Agriculture in Peradeniya for further investigations.
Navy had also arrested two suspects with 4,205 packets of Glyphosate while transferring them by a lorry in the general area of Periyapadu on 21st of this month.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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