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It was day-before-yesterday a married person, an Army Lieutenant Colonel who was involved in a law suit of divorce from his wife having 3 children was shot at in Isurupura area in Pittugala, Malabe was interrogated by the police. However on that occasion he had denied that he had committed something like that. But his driver

The police managed to locate and retrieve the pistol used by the suspect for this shooting, from Diyawanna Oya. The lady 43 year old Mrs. Nayana Fernando the victim who was in a serious condition is under treatment at the National Hospital, Colombo. There had been domestic conflicts between Mrs. Nayana Fernando and her husband for a period of time and as a consequence a divorce case which was filed was scheduled to commence next week. Having had to separate from the husband she had planned to demand a large sum of money for maintenance of the family. According to the salary and assets of the lieutenant colonel he has had to pay quite a large sum of money in the future and he had expressed disfavour in that connection. Before the case was legally filed, arguments had flared up between the two of them regarding that aspect. He may, it may be assumed had speculated that he would have no future if at all he had to pay that money and it is observed that under such circumstances the lieutenant colonel may have thought of carrying out this shooting and putting an end to her life.

Whatever it is, the children who were in the house at the time of the shooting had been sharp enough to identify the lieutenant colonel who had been surveying movements around the window where the victim was sleeping on 27th night and had finally shot at her stomach region. The assailant had fled in the dark from the immediate scene after the shooting and had got into his vehicle thinking that his wife had died. The lady who sustained severe injuries from the shooting however escaped death after being admitted to hospital. In fact she is still under treatment in hospital.

The lieutenant colonel who set off with his driver and coadjutor in the vehicle after the shooting had approached the parliament area and after breaking journey there had tossed the pistol in his hand to Diyawanna Oya. He had also advised the two persons in his company not to divulge information about this incident to anybody. After 3 days of inquiry the lieutenant colonel who came under suspicion was ultimately taken into custody by Aturugiriya Police Crimes Unit and the 9 mm. type pistol connected with the shooting was recovered last afternoon by the Colombo Navy personnel from Diyawanna Oya close to Japan Friendship Bridge.

The suspect lieutenant colonel of the Army had been serving the Gajaba Regiment affiliated to Nelum Pokuna security activities. After he was interrogated he was produced before courts and subsequently remanded till next 9th.

For a case against misappropriation of public funds when the former Minister of economic development Basil Rajapaksa was present in the Colombo Magistrates courts on the 30th instant answering to a question posed by a media personnel

Basil Rajapaksa also had said that they would not participate in the 65th annual convention of the SLFP.

Along the A 9  Jaffna -Colombo road in the Kanagarayankulama area about some years ago a Buddha statue that was erected by the Sri Lanka Army had been damaged on the 29th instant.

The two Buddha   statues 3 1/2 feet and 1 1/2 feet in height have been totally destroyed and the

No one had complained to the police but the authorities of the Kanagarayakulama police had notified the Deputy Inspector General of the Wanni division.

The official name of the  Sri Lanka police service in parallel to the 150th anniversary celebrations would be made officially as  "Sri Lanka Police".This change has received the cabinet approval.This proposal has been made by

This proposal had been in this manner.Over the period of time Sri Lanka Police had been called by different names at periods of time.

In 1865  under the police ordinance No 16 the police department was formed and at phases has been called by similar names It had been called as the Police task force and in 1945 as the Police department had been known and in the year 1972 had been called as the Sri Lanka Police service.

The Sri Lanka Police is to celebrate 150 years in existence this year.It has been proposed to name it in an more appropriate manner. In this context the proposal to name as the Sri Lanka Police by the Minister of Law & Order and southern development Minister Sagala Ratnayake which had been given the green light by the cabinet..

A fifteen year old school girl a resident of Vedikumbura area in Moneragala had been raped by a person called "Sudu Bappa" while she was all alone at home.Not only that this person had  even  brought a proposal to marry the teenage girl within

The culprit Sudu Bappa had entered the house when her parents were away showing his neighborhood good relationship..He had entered into the house asking for a glass of water.When he knocked on the door he had asked from the girl a glass of water she had gone into the house asking him to stay for a moment. Sudu Bappa had followed her and dragged her into a room.He had asked her not to scream and raped her.

The teenage girl had been frightened to confess the story yo her parents who had gone to the Chena cultivation for agricultural purposes.She had been scared to tell this to anyone as her parents would even kill her.

Sudu Bappa had on the following day had visited the girl's house with two drunken friends. They had openly brought a marriage  proposal to the girl in front of her parents. Sudu Bappa had added that he has all qualifications for the proposal.The parents had been amused and baffled at this story had inquired what is the necessity for Sudu Bappa to bring in this proposal.

The teenage girl had cried and gone to a room/When she was asked the reason she had confessed the unfortunate story.of her been raped by Sudu Bappa.

The parents had slammed Sudu Bappa. Then he had related the story of raping.The proposal was rejected as the daughrter was still is a minor. Sudu Banda had fled the scene. and area.

The parents had complained about this incident to the Moneragala police investigations are been carried out by the Headquarters Inspector Vehitha Desapriya

Two young people have been taken into custody by now over the incident of having gained illegal access to President Maithripala Sirisena's official website. After they were questioned in this connection a host of information

The arrested 17 year old youth in fact is a schoolboy studying in the Maths stream at Ranabima Royal College, Kandy and was following his Advanced Level. Even prior to this he had gained illegal access to 7 other websites, he had admitted. The second suspect who has been apprehended is a graphic artiste having been identified as the individual who has provided technical advice in this respect. He is 27 year old Karunanayakage Janith Madhusanka, a resident of Katubedda, Moratuwa.

The schoolboy who is involved has been taken into custody for having issued a threatening announcement asking that the GCE Advanced Level Examination be not held in the month of April, to give ear to demands of university students, that the government would have to face a cyber war if not able to take precautions in that respect and in such a case for the President to tender his resignation. The schoolboy has on a number of occasions resorted to hacking the President's Website which actions warrant punishment under clause 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 of the Computer Crime Laws of No. 14, 2007. Under such conditions he was later produced before courts and detained at Makola Detention House while the 27 year old young man was remanded under orders of Colombo Chief Magistrate Mr. Gihan Pilapitiya.

Apart from this, the Criminal Investigation Department has forwarded a 'B' Report implying that information has been revealed that these two suspects have committed this offence with collaboration of foreign suspects too. A number of IP numbers have been utilised from overseas for this hacker attack; but since one number had been used in this country by mistake, it was possible to arrest the two of them on surveys conducted across that data. The police say that they were able to identify the Facebook Group Account known as Arrow lk which has been maintained by the two suspects which in fact provides the opportunity of changing the data after intruding over 37 websites in Sri Lanka. Further, in addition to that account they had been involved in exchanging relevant information to launch hacking operations on the website forum known as Yakadaya Forum. They had also been engaged in discussions about gaining unauthorized access to websites across the internet while in the process maintaining other Facebook data pages as well as some websites such as Rathu Ukussa, Sumedha Janavijaya and Koyahacker.

The schoolboy who is one of the suspects in this incident has gained access to 7 websites in this manner and involved in acts of distortion of information. While involved in Advanced Level studies in school, he had even tried his hand at a business by the name of Harshana Graphics across the internet and thus was making money by attending to various scripts and graphic work. These two young men had got to know each other through a global forum, subsequent to which they had discussed over the telephone and finally embarked on the operation of hacking the President's Website as to how it could be done in a strategical way after which they had carried out their plans. They were nabbed by the police even before 48 hours elapsed simply because they had made a blunder in one IP address.

The  President of the Lanka motor cyclists association Chirantha Amarasinghe has advised the motor cyclists to wear helmets from the 1st September where they have indicated the areas of the head that could be damaged in the event of an accident.On these new helmets they have drawn diagrams

There are other factors that need to be adhered to like the size of the helmet,the security belt to be tight should be made aware to the riders.The President of the motor cyclists association Chirantha Amerasinghe also have cautioned that several riders have in the past had met with accidents causing injuries to their faces which had made them as permanently handicapped.In that aspect they should be aware of the consequences he had added.

Plans are afoot to commence work on 3 new Expressway routes from January 2017, Minister of Highways Lakshman Kiriella says. As such, operations are to begin on Colombo - Kandy Expressway (stage 2), Colombo - Ruwanpura Expressway and Kurunegala - Dambulla - Trincomalee,

The proposed new Colombo - Ruwanpura Expressway route of 51.5 kms. is to commence from Kahatuduwa and is expected to be constructed upto Ratnapura. The interchanging points on this expressway would be the 6 cities of Kahatuduwa, Horana, Ingiriya, Kiriella, Kurivita and Ratnapura. Its activities are expected to be completed under 3 stages within 41 months.

It has been envisaged to extend the 4th stage of the Central Expressway running from Kurunegala to Dambulla upto Trincomalee and Jaffna by joining the Eastern Province and the North Province. The length of the Expressway from Kurunegala to Dambulla would span a distance of 60.15 kms. and it would cover 5 interchanging points. Those points would be established at Ridigama, Melsiripura, Galewela, Dambulla A9 route and Dambulla A6 route.

A person who subjected the President's official website (president.gov.lk) to a process of hacking last Friday had made certain comments of a threatening nature so that anybody who had access to it was able to see them. A protest against conducting the Advanced

This hacking process had continued twice within the space of two days and the police who engaged in an investigation in this connection were able to detect the IP address relevant to this activity and thus were successful in taking the culprit to custody. What ultimately surprised them was that it was a school student who was living in Kadugannawa and still pursuing his studies for the Advanced Level at his school. It was later revealed that this schoolboy who was studying at a leading boys' school in Kandy had engaged in this form of hacking, as is for fun.

The motive as to why he was involved in hacking the President's Website is still being inquired into and a surveillance in underway to determine whether it was done with a political aim in mind or simply for the fun of it. The Deputy Inspector General of Police Ajith Rohana has mentioned that the arrested student is being brought to Colombo for further interrogation purposes. According to legal provisions which deals with allegations in respect of computers, legal action is expected to be taken against the suspect and the Computer Emergency Response Team too has commenced an inquiry in this connection.

When investigations were carried out to verify the reason for the fire that broke out in the harbour it had revealed that a private institution who are conducting a certain development

It has been reported that some rubber pipes had initially caught fire and it had then spread to some tyres in the vicinity causing the huge fire with smoke.

This fire had broke out at 1.30pm yesterday. These rubber pipes are used to draw sand  from the sea to the land through them.It  has not been ascertained how the fire broke out.However  on account of the fire no damage to property of the harbour  or to persons had occurred.

The Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has called for explanation from the related authorities of the sports ministry how as many as 46 officials had accompanied just 09  participants at the RIO Olympic games concluded in Brazil.The Prime Minister has called explanation from the officials in

Ranil Wickreamasinghe has also called for a report on the activities of the Olympic committee.He had also requested to furnish a report on those who participated in Olympic events.

During the recent past the President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe had received a number allegations in regard to the participants and officials who accompanied them.It had been requested to submit a report on the activities of the  Sri Lanka Olympic committee that had occurred during the past five years.

The Leader of the House minister Lakshman Kiriella had accused of irregularities  and frauds in the  areas of  many sports  fields.In order to bring about new legislation to prevent such activities i these information are collected.

Two factions of undergraduates of the Sri Jayewardenapura had clashed resulting in six students been admitted to the Kalubowila hospital for treatment.

The clash had taken place between the first year and second year students in connection with the

The officers of the Athurugiriya police have questioned a Colonel in the army who had lived in two storied house in Isurupura,Pittugala Malabe for causing injuries to the stomach of his wife by

The children of the couple had confessed that the two had been on verge of a divorce.The police Officers have recorded statements from the Colonel for about five hours.

A significant feature was that the Colonel had come to the police station accompanied by the army  police personnel. had come to answer .The  name of the suspected Colonel would be made known in a couple of days.

At a ceremony presided by the Minister John Amaratunga yesterday at Wattala area, two persons who had pelted stones at the vehicle of Western provincial council member of the UPFA and six persons who had hooted at Minister John

These suspects have been apprehended by the officers attached to the Wattala police.Among those arrested for the hooting incident are two women it is reported.They are to be produced before the Chief magistrate of the Wattala  magistrates courts Poornima Gamage. Until  the 30th instant three of the accused persons have been kept in prison.

The rest three persons have been released  on bail,but will have to face an identification parade tomorrow.

A crowd who disfavoured a festival where a plot

Though the booing continued and the protest continued, Minister John Amaratunga too continued addressing those present. Later as a result of the heavy booing and protest that ensued,the Minister had to creep away from a get away route with the support of the police. The extent to which the protestors detested the Minister was portrayed by the act of the figure of John Amaratunga being set on fire.

One person who had been accompanied by another

The police have  launched investigations in search of the suspects. The 30 year old deceased businessman is supposed to be a resident of Pilimatalawa and it is assumed that this murder would have been committed over a personal dispute. Cctv scenes, from below

In the eastern wing in the  premises of the Port authority Colombo some tyres  had caught fire this afternoonresulting in huge flames and smoke over the area.

The fire had not hurt or injured anyone.The fire

The cause of the fire has not yet been established.Investigations are underway to ascertain the cause of the sudden fire the related authorities have added..

A sad incident is reported from Kalpitiya police division where a woman after child birth had died when her husband had cut the umbilical cord between his wife and new born child. Before the death of the woman she had given birth to a child 08 days earlier.

The incident has been reported from Pulachchena village in the Kalpitiya police division. The woman a 36 year old had given birth to a baby boy.The umbilical coed had been separated by cutting it by the husband of this woman.It is reported that this woman during pregnancy had not attended any clinic although she had two children aged 15 years and 09 years.

After the birth of these two children she had not attended to any maternity clinic.It is learnt that even during the pregnancy periods of the previous children also she had not attended any  maternity clinic.

During police investigations it had been revealed that the husband was responsible for cutting the umbilical cord.

In the next few days the officials of the meteorological department have informed that the sun is travelling right above Sri Lanka.It is travelling toward south from tomorrow until the 07th  September.

At 12.12 pm this afternoon it is right above Pullaweli,Vedukkadu and Uravenakpaththuwa cities.

The southern regions and central regions of the country will experience heavy winds. ( KM 50 -60 per hour)

In the Western,Sabaragamuwa, Central and Wayamba provinces and in Jafna,Mannar,GalleandMatara districts light showers are expected. In other areas of the country light rains accompanied with thunder is expected after 2 pm. The public are  expected to take precautions against lightning.

These days via mobile phones and related searches  have helped people in their activities in day to day life.

In this context in regard in locating and identifying the body after the murder of millionaire businessman from Bambalapitiya Mohammed Shanib Sulaiman has helped immensely the settings

On the 24th instant at 2.00 pm in the afternoon although the Mawanella police had intimated to the Bambalapitiya police about a dead body it was not certain whether this dead body was that of missing Sulaiman. There was some suspicion over it.

The dead body had been seen by some workers who are attending to the Mawanella-- Hemmatagama road widening project and informed the Mawanella police.

An uncle of the deceased Sullaiman had gone to  Mawanella .He had been able to identify the dead body as that of Sulaiman when he was able to clarify same from a photograph stored in his mobile phone of his wife. via Apps facility.

Accordingly the clothes that were worn and body features were that of her husband were conformed by the wife of the deceased Later on father of Sulaiman also had visited the place to clarify. .

The officers of the Akuressa police has taken into custody a 70 year old grandfather who had shown his vital organs by raising his sarong  to a university female student while travelling in a packed SLTB bus

This person is a resident of Kosmodera and is a father of four grown up children.He is suspected to  have performed this ugly incident a number of times while travelling in the bus to young girls and women.These incidents had been revealed by the bus crew.

It is reported that investigations are carried out to verify whether this person is suffering from any  psychiatric condition.

A person had fired gun shots at the wife of an Army Colonel who had been living in a two-storied house in Isurupura area, Pitugala, Malabe and had beat a retreat after that, Athurugiriya Police say. This shooting has taken place around 10 in the night day-

The victim is a 43 year old mother of 3 children and she had filed action for a divorce from him and the case is scheduled to be taken up for hearing on the first week of next month. This incident is supposed to have taken place in connection with a family dispute and the victim's children have said that the individual who was involved in the shooting resembles their father's features. The said lady was shot at when she was inside the bedroom, it is reported. It is also reported that the victim is someone who is employed at Nelum Pokuna, Colombo.  

Sometime back the parents of the girl Dilini the latter of whom was to be the daughter-in-law of Rajitha and was then a minor had been retained in a house. Under these circumstances the parents of this girl had made an attempt to take legal action. However the case filed by them was brought to a settlement because the complainant party withdrew the case. By now she had completed the age 18 and therefore their wedding was registered and a celebration was held. A home-coming was also celebrated and on that occasion Rajitha's youngest son happened to take to vocals too.

The collection of the photos, from here

The song sung on home-coming day by Rajitha's youngest son Eksath, from here

It has been unanimously decided by the members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party at Matugama and Ratgama electorates not to attend the 65th annual convention of the SLFP. The proposals made in this regard on the 27th instant have been passed.

In this regard it is obvious that the SLFP is on the verge of been divided.

The Chief consultant  judicial medical officer of the Negombo hospital has refused to conduct the postmortem of a driver who had died in Saudi Arabia.This person had died according to the medical report sent had been owing to a  rare dangerous

Owing to the suspicious nature of the death of the driver as disclosed by his  his wife, the Negombo additional magistrate  Kapila Dushantha Epitawela after taking into consideration her request had directed the Colombo chief consultant judiciary medical officer and his team of medical officers to conduct the postmortem.

The deceased is 30 year old A.Rukman Lal, a father on one child, resident of Panamura Ethgaala area in Embilipitiya had died while working in Saudi Arabia.The  remains of the dead body with a related medical reported had been sent to Sri Lanka sealed with the cause of the death termed as owing to a rare dangerous virus had entered into his body.

Once the body was sent to the Bandaranaike International airport the inquirer into sudden deaths had instructed the chief consultant judiciary medical officer to conduct the postmortem examination.It had been stated on the label that in the event the contents are opened it may result in a dangerous situation as the dangerous virus may harm others.Hence the chief consultant judiciary medical officer had refused to examine the dead body

 The wife of the deceased a  medical nurse attached to the United Nations had complained to the Negombo Magistarate that she suspects the death of her husband.Then the Negombo magistrate had ordered the postmortem to be carried by the chief consultant judiciary medical office Colombo and his team to conduct the postmortem.The postmortem is to be held on the September 29th if they find that it is safe to conduct a medical examination of the body..

The  sub inspector of police at the Bandaranaike International Airport Jayantha Silva had conducted into the complaint.Attorney at Law Gayani Jayasinghe has appeared for the wife of the deceased.The dead body has been kept in the same manner it was sent at the mortuary of the Negombo national hospital until the 29th September.