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A suspect who attempted to smuggle out a stock of wallapatta from the Katunayake International Airport has been arrested. Deputy Customs Director Parakrama Basnayake said that the haul of wallapatta was recovered from the baggage of a person who arrived at the Airport to leave for Chennai. The stock of wallapatta weighed eight kilogrammes and

22 persons are being interrogated with respect to maintaining an office sans at Consul General in Los Angeles. They are reported to have fraudulently used a sum of more than 40.8 million rupees thus renting out this building. The Financial Crimes Investigations Division informed the judiciary that two soldiers who were affiliated to the security

The third Kumbal Perahera of the historic Kandy Esala Perahera Festival will parade the streets tonight. A large crowd gathered to view the Perahera. The Perahera was scheduled to commence at the auspicious time of 6.39 p.m. from the Sri Dalada Maligawa facing the South. The will wend its way along D.S. Senanayake Veediya, Colombo

The Foreigner is an upcoming English-language action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and written by David Marconi, based on the 1992 novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather. The British-Chinese co-production stars Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Murphy, Orla Brady, Liu Tao and Katie Leung. It is scheduled to be released on the 13th  October 

England’s Moeen Ali took a hat-trick to wrap up a 239-run victory over South Africa in the third Test at The Oval.The off-spinner had Dean Elgar, who made 136, caught at slip, Kagiso Rabada dismissed in the same manner then trapped Morne Morkel lbw on review.Moeen finished with 4-45 as South Africa, chasing an unlikely

Defending champion and 800m world record holder David Rudisha has pulled out of next month’s World Athletics Championships with a quad muscle strain.The 28 year old Kenyan said on Twitter it was “sad and disappointing” to miss out on the event, which runs from 4 to 13 August in London.He is the only person to

Water sports of Deveni Inima team

Photography - Thushara Sanjeewa