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Former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa has called for a special media discussion at Carlton House in Tangalla about the Port of Hambantota being leased out to China.

This is what he said: "I believe that great hopes of my father, my father's brother and people like Ananda, Kularatna of the United National Party had to build this port. So we built the port which was said could not be built. For this, nothing was taken from government funds to be paid back. Even the

So after signing, we still suffer. Even today we are being battered. It was in this month of 29th in eighty seven that this Agreement was signed. At that time it was with India and today with a company from China. In the same way once again J.R.'s grandson now gets together in unison with President getting round Sri Lanka Freedom Party and having made agreements, has sold this. We always expressed protest about an asset of the public of this country being lost.

If necessary the port could be made to run, if properly executed. If there is a necessity the port could even be closed. A programme to develop this could be launched. But now it has been given to a foreign company. The government has a severe grudge against Mattala Airport. It is a grudge and jealousy that operates with the Hambantota people. Planes came to Mattala Airport. People in this location know about it. Every country should have 2 airports. Soon after coming to power what was done was to make Mattala a paddy-storing warehouse. It was made a paddy-storeroom where paddy was stored and having disparaged and destroyed it, then closed it up. That is what this government did. Now after having closed it, sells it saying it is of no use ... that it is something that has no aeroplanes. Who is it that stopped planes coming to the airport? The airport and the port was not made solely for people in Hambatota ... for the entire country. This is an asset which the whole country lost. A very malefic time has dawned on the land".

After a certain lady complained that tele-actress Gayathri Dias had grabbed her lover and that story was circulating across social media, Gayathri had responded to it in a shaken up mood across a Rupavahini channel last week. She had remarked "In future it will come out across newspapers and names of several persons who were closely associated with me will be revealed". Exactly as she said she has mentioned

Gayathri happens to be the legal wife of Channa Perera and the mother of 2 children. When inquiring into the reply she had given at this interview it is quite evident that she is in an entirely different world of her own having distanced herself from that family and there are clues to say that her heartache has not been targeted at the female who has woven up false stories but at Anuj Ranasingha the model who incidentally became Mr. Sri Lanka 2011 and after having struck up an intimate relationship with her has now gone behind abandoning her. That discussion is as follows:

   It's a gift that was given to me by several of those who knew me during a period of time which now has flared up like this. If it's something true I can make up my mind thinking that it's of course a fault of mine. But what I feel sorry is what happened because of a story without any foundation as such.

   I came to know of this female in 2015. It was at a Katina Pinkama held at the amateur actor Anuj Ranasingha, the performer's house. Since a certain person shouting about and comporting herself in an unbefitting manner at the occasion ... I asked Anuj who it was. Then Anuj said it was someone whom he came to know at the gym. That day I attended the Pinkama with an ailment in my foot. It was even difficult for me to walk. Having seen this condition she came and spoke. What she wanted was to get friendly with me. Somehow or other she applied oil on my foot and struck up a friendship with me.

   Yes. As she was a friend of Anuj and with the approval of Anuj that I kept on with that friendship. She was someone who moves around with many males, frequents night clubs and dresses immodestly. Since it's her privacy I won't make it relevant to me. She used to accompany me on journeys which I undertook alone. That was on her and Anuj's wishes. She came with me to attend many a festival after asking me whether she could come. It was later that I came to know that she attended those occasions to which she was not invited and made alliances by thus making use of me. She could get friendly with any person quickly. But even if she returned at 2 or 3 in the morning she never gets herself dropped at home. She would get down at a three-wheel park somewhere in Moratuwa and walk away. She hasn't ever shown where she was living.

   No ... what she wanted was to get herself connected to those things. It was for that that she sharply used us.

   No ... not to my knowledge. From where she gets the money I don't know.

   Yes. Anuj started an affair with the new actress called Dusheni Silva. I was not aware of it. Some days back I went to Canada for a week. It was Anuj himself who dropped me at the airport. However it was from that day that he changed. Thinking that my friendship was an obstacle for their new affair he had taken a decision on his own. Only when inquiring about the change that I came to hear the news.

   Definitely yes. But if I was left to live alone by myself I could have made up my mind. But because of things that he does to get marks from his new lover I have been inconvenienced and subjected to shame.

   I am not such a foolish woman. That referred-to lady and the performer called Dinesh was sent to me in a strategic manner to convey the idea that I am a worry to Anuj and to save him.

   Are you mad? If he has no use of my friendship why should I go behind him? But Anuj spoke to me even after he went. He spoke as if he doesn't feel anything about Dusheni. But I told him to do what he's doing ... frankly. Later on he didn't speak to me. When Anuj used to speak to me frequently and tell faults of Dusheni I would convey that to Dusheni. It was after that, that Anuj blocked me from fb.

   No ... both are only friends of Anuj. The lover of that lady is Rumesh Atalugama. Rumesh is a malli aged 22 years who stepped into the field anew. This lady says that he is 24 years old. But there's information to say that she's someone over 40 years having a child also. She has carried on this affair after hiding these things from us and Rumesh also. However Rumesh has tried to put a stop to this affair. So this lady who has lost her head is trying to drag me too into this story.

   That story was initially made up by Anuj. Anuj himself has told here and there that the person whom he sent to me for help has struck up a connection with me. I came to know about those things also. Just as much as I have no alliance with Dinesh he is not that lady's lover either. Her lover is Rumesh.

   The genuine photo of that is with me. Rumesh, Dinesh, I and that referred to lady are in that photo. That photo was taken when attending a match played in Wennappuwa. I had gone earlier while Rumesh, Dinesh and that lady came later. It was I who invited the three of them. It was a photo taken at that time. It was after editing it that, that lady slings mud at me. Rumesh is not there in the photo that was so edited.

   Yes. At that time I was truly very friendly with her and I sent her extremely personal photos of mine ... that was because I believed she was a friend of mine. Now she's throwing mud at me from those very photos.

   Since he's not responding to my calls I told Dinesh himself to ask him to stop these things and if not that I'll have to expose the root-story of these photos. Though he gave a cool response to it, that lady had been notified and the photos have been removed. But that lady had inserted a post saying "On a special request the photos of having been beaten have been removed ... await from Gossip". Not only that, when this upset was taking place Anuj spoke to me and asked what is this that's happening. I told him to tell that lady not to make false allegations against me. But he evaded it saying that it's not relevant to him as such.

   I also didn't think so at the start. But I confirmed it from comments sent to that lady's posts. These things are good lessons for me ... when getting attached I go to help without limits ... become frank. I didn't even think of their level or status. If I did so, like that lady, Anuj wouldn't have preyed on my friendship.

   The sad part of it is that all the while knowing about it I found myself lodging with dogs.

   All of them tried to create problems at home too. But luckily they weren't able to do so. Even now I am in my house with Channa aiya and two children.

   He's a person who lives in a very respectable way. He doesn't go through gossip. He has other work more than that. Even upto now he has not questioned me about this. Because of a shooting-stint of a new teledrama Channa aiya is in Maskeliya these days ... even told me and children to come over for a holiday. We'll be going to Channa aiya some day next week.

   Have to go abroad because of children's education ... no. That also will be somewhere at the end of this year or towards the beginning of next year.

- Himesha Rajapaksha -      

A certain lover supposed to be in love with a boy and the boy concerned is involved in a love affair with tele actress Gayathri Dias. The lover has continuously found fault with Gayathri as repeatedly mentioned across the Facebook. From what Gayathri said at a TV 1 channel last week it confirms that she had got shaken up over this issue circulating over the internet.

This is what she said on that occasion: "These days

This activity is going on for 2 weeks ... among their friends. I didn't speak just because a dog bites me ... I don't have the habit of biting a dog. The other thing is that everybody knows that the kind called crabs keep struggling about only till the gravy is on the fire. So, may the blessings of the Buddha be with you!"

We who inquired about this phenomenon were able to find that it was the person called Dinanya Peiris who is engaged as a professional model who has blamed Gayathri across the social media. She has publicised various things saying that Gatathri has grabbed her young lover from her. Some of those things and the video displaying Gayathri replying with a swirling mind about it, from below    

Judge Ilanchelian made an explanation to the media yesterday by inferring that ideas expressed by the Police Media Spokesman were not correct in relation to the attack launched near the vehicle in which Judge Ilachelian was travelling, thus killing a police officer in Nallur area in Jaffna recently.

What he says is that this was not a stray incident and that the gunman's target was him. Since a court

Parents are unable to inquire into certain activities in which children engage themselves all by themselves and such an unfortunate accident is reported with a 9 year old child embracing death in Anuradhapura area.

Deneth Induwara living in the hamlet of Ellawewa, Ranpathvila, Kahatagasliyedda died as a result of his neck being caught in between two branches when he

When he had climbed the said guava tree in front of the house and pluck guavas his foot had slipped and his neck had got caught in between two branches of the tree. The parents had come to know of this accident only a short while later. He was later dispatched to Kahatagasliyedda Hospital; however even by that time the boy had closed his eyes forever, the police said. Deceased Deneth Induwara is a student following his education in grade 4 of Ranpathwila Ellawewa Vidyalaya.

The Central Bank has launched an inquiry regarding the incident of data of 4,630 customers of HNB private bank leaking out externally.

This revelation took place across a promotional e-mail message mailed by HNB to their reputed clientele highlighting the point that HNB has reached the group of best banks in the world. In the e-

Though what has been intended by the said promotion launch is to make further customers join in to make deposits with the bank, this revelation has been carried out by those not having an idea about the surreptitious bank information.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has notified the public that this has happened because of neglect, as revealed at initial investigations. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has mentioned that further inquiries are underway by them and the relevant private bank to ascertain whether this was an oversight of the internal management of the bank.

After the police officer who was providing security to Judge Mr. Irachelian of Nallur area recently faced unanticipated gunshots and finally passing away, the judge was overcome with deep shock and at the moment when the deceased's final rites were being performed the judge made a speech and stated that he would undertake the

"I have 2 children. Both are sons. From today onwards I will look after Hemachandra's daughter and son. Now I have 4 children. Until my death I would take the responsibility of the education and future of these two children. I will look after these children like my own. Not only the education of this daughter ... I will see to the finances required for her wedding in the future", the judge remarked.

The scene where the High Court Judge who could not bear up the departure of the police constable who provided security to him for 17 years and in the end succumbed to gunshot injuries fell down at the feet of the police officer's wife which became a scene that brought shock to the whole country.  

The heated situation which flared up near Kolonnawa Petrol storage facility that came under Army control after last night's operations has still not subsided as such.

The demonstrators have protested expressing their protest against the train which came to Kolonnawa petrol storage terminal to collect fuel by lying down

This commotion has taken place when this train was on  its way to collect petrol required for the airport. Even prior to this some workers have attempted to hamper distribution by deflating tyres of bowsers.

Kolonnawa Petroleum Storage came under Army control on judicial sanctions of the government last night while those involved in the strike launched various strategies to abort Army operations. They had taken steps to disrupt activities involving filling procedures upto transport procedures and other obstacles such as deflating tyres and blocking roads. Having peacefully settled all this the Army personnel were able to release about 15 bowsers from Kolonnawa by 1 in the afternoon today. Seen below are photos of such activities of the Army. See all photos, from here

The government has decided not to go into agreement with regard to the strike launched by petroleum workers throughout yesterday. In the meantime steps have been taken after releasing a gazette to the effect that petroleum services is deemed essential and measures have been adopted to continue distribution of petrol utilising services of Army personnel and necessary legal procedures would be adopted to  dismiss workers found still

According to the gazette released by President's Secretary Mr. Austin Fernando last midnight (25), supplying of all petroleum products and liquid gas in addition to supplying and distribution of fuel has been made essential. In the same way, the gazette notifies that activities related to disposal of oil or fuel of a vessel at the port, transporting, unloading, storing, delivering or removal are expected to be carried out or all services deemed as essential should be adhered to. If workers fail to report to duty after it is made an essential service, they will be considered as having vacated their post, government says.

The Army entered Kolonnawa Petroleum Corporation last morning at about 2 o'clock and took over complete domination of the premises. The Army including the security forces entered through a gate situated at Obeysekerapura and managed to put out workers from petroleum corporation premises and thus took full control. Subsequently distribution activities of petrol was thus recommenced as usual thereafter.

It was reported that workers involved in the strike were removed and security of those who did not participate in the strike were assured of their security. Army Spokesman Brigadier Roshan Seneviratna mentioned that it would be possible to  provide the first fuel bowser today (26) around 10 in the morning under the control of the Army.  

The conflict which flared up last night at Kolonnawa Petroleum storage terminal between petroleum workers and the Army turned into a heated atmosphere.

Though at first the workers closed the gates and prevented the Army from entering, in the presence of armed forces, the workers had

A certain commercial advertisement which was published in yesterday's (24) Lankadeepa newspaper has brought a sorrowful piece of news airing despondency about the social situation that is prevalent these days.

An ailing father had because his children not visited him to inquire about his health had inserted an advertisement by paying money to a newspaper as there was

After the sensational Central Bank bond auction to which Arjun Mahendra was connected Arjun Aloysius, Mahendran's son-in-law had given 2 units of super-luxury houses facing Galle Face Hotel for purposes of residence to the wife of former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayaka which were bought on lease at a price of Rs. 73 lakhs and that after the lease they had bought it for a sum of Rs. 16.5 crores (1650 lakhs) yesterday (24), the owner of that building revealed with relevant

The said owner of that super-luxury housing company which is known as Monarch Residencies, Colombo 3 , Miss Anitha Wijeysuriya told that though Aloysius had advised her to destroy the relevant agreements before these matters were brought to light; that she did not do so. She had stated that initially it was Ravi Karunanayaka's wife Melarin Chiranthi Karunanayaka who came to meet her and then from a telephone call given by her, Arjun Joseph Aloysius came and discussed about this transaction with her after which the wife and daughter had come into occupation there and when the period of lease of 6 months was expiring it was requested to be extended for a further 2 months.

She had further confirmed by forwarding the relevant deeds and other documents in the presence of the Commission that those 2 super-luxury units were bought over from her for a figure of Rs. 165 million (Rs. 1650 lakhs) by Global Transportation and Logistic private company owned by Ravi Karunanayaka before that period expired.