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The nine Tamil youths involved in the gang rape and murder of a school girl in Jaffna were produced in the Kayts Magistrate’s Courts today. They were further remanded until the 15th of this month. The suspects are alleged to have gang raped and murdered 17-year-old Sivalohanathan Vidya, a school […]

The Indian Police have succeeded in uncovering details of a large scale ganja racket carried out between India and Sri Lanka. The details of this racket following the arrest of three Sri Lankans along with eleven kilograms of ganja. Acting on a tip-off by local fishermen, a special team, led […]

The Police succeeded in raiding a ganja plantation at Hambegamuwa in Thanamalwila. The Police said that they managed to arrest a suspect. The ganja plantation was detected during the raid conducted in the Karapinchalanda area following a tip off received by the Hambegamuwa Police.The ganja plantation has been maintained under […]

The Independent Television Network commemorates its 36th birthday on Friday the 05th. All arrangements are in place to commemorate the event. When compared with other TV Channels, ITN is still young. It should be mentioned with pride that ITN still has the young force. ITN from today approaches its viewers […]

40 persons have been prosecuted in the Tamil Nadu Courts on four charges including the released of public statements supporting the LTTE outfit. The 40 suspects including Leader of the Naam Thamil Party Seemon have been prosecuted. The case has been filed by the Tamil Nadu Police. These suspects are […]

John Kerry in bicycle mishap in Switzerland hospitalised

The American state secretary John Kerry who visited in an official capacity to Sri Lanka recently had also visited Switzerland also on an
official capacity. Foreign reports have revealed that John Kerry had during his leisure had joined a group of cyclists to ride bicycles. It is reported that during this exercise in the Alps area he has had a mishap,  and fallen .It is learnt that he had sustained fractures to a leg and been hospitalised.
It is learnt that John Kerry is famous for this sport and is a competent cyclist. But the American media had reported that this incident is one of the rare isolated unfortunate incidents.
The American state secretary had visited Switzerland to discuss about the plans to supply of arms to Iraq. This accident had caused the discussions planned to be curtailed. The American reports have revealed that he had planned to visit Paris and Madrid also for similar discussions. But as a result of this unfortunate mishap the proposed trips have been cancelled.

A talk to counter-attack former President Mahinda's son ....by former Chief Justice Shirani's son!

Sometime back former First Lady Mrs. Shiranthi Rajapaksa was summoned to come over to be questioned on a complaint lodged against her at the FCID after which former President's son MP Namal
Rajapaksa had interpreted it as an act of political revenge and had said, 'Let my mother stay in peace .... if you want, catch us .... don't bother our mother', thus uttering a sensitive statement.

When the Facebook ran this statement of Namal, son of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayaka, Shavin Kariyawasam replied that members of his family were subjected to baseless allegations for two and a half years even without getting involved in any form of politics and became trapped in an issue which went beyond this at that time. He then states that making a statement on this occasion to win the mercy is not justified and even goes as far as questioning whether he could now sense this sorrow himself and ends up by asking that the equity of the law only be kept in mind.

Shaveen Kariyawasam is someone who is not connected to law and has pursued studies on the Cinematic Arts and is maintaining an establishment in that connection.

The extracts of that Facebook dialogue, from BELOW