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Stumped!
 They died
for cricket (Daily Mirror 20-3-2003) A father and a son from Matara have
died of heart attacks, while they were watching the semi-final cricket match
between Sri Lanka and Australia played on Tuesday. The sudden death of D.W.
Sirisena (60) of Kirinde and his son D.W. Rasheel Geenath Dilukshi (27) had
occurred just after Sanath Jayasuriya lost his wicket. Matara City Coroner H.B.
Cyril de Silva returned a verdict of death due to a heart ailment. Judicial
Medical Officer H.T.K. Wijayaweera conducted the post mortem. |
Man Attacks Gods. Gods badly injured
Remanded for attacking
gods (Daily Mirror 12-3-2003)
Hatton Magistrate, Lalith Ekanayake
yesterday remanded M. Ramachandra, charged with sacrilegious behaviour till
March 24. He was accused of destroying ten statues of gods in a devale in a
Hatton estate. The suspect was infuriated in spite of his constant worshipping
of the gods and for not saving his 19-year-old son who died from an illnes. He
had gone to the devale armed with a hammer and destroyed ten statues. A group
of people in the estate who were provoked by his act tried to assault him when
police intervened and arrested him. |
Katunayake
delays Bandaranayaka
Odd Spot: President
keeps international flight waiting [ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka] Feb
24, Colombo: President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who has earned a name for lack of
punctuality, kept waiting an SriLankan Airlines flight at the Katunayake
International Airport for two hours. President Kumaratunga came two hours late
to the airport to go to Kuala Lumpur to attend the Non-Aligned Nations summit.
The other passengers had to bear with the delay |
World's Oldest Medicine!
Six 'Chinese medical centres' were brothels
(Daily News 25-2-2003)
Six out of the 14 Chinese Herbal Medical Centres operating under the
BoI licence to provide herbal medical treatment were brothels, a senior BoI
official told the Daily News yesterday.
The BoI in its report handed over to BoI Director General Arjuna
Mahendran, identified six Chinese herbal centres in and around Colombo
operating as brothels. Several brothels have been raided by Wellawatte,
Bambalapitiya, Kollupitiya and Kirulopane Police Divisions. |
School Drama, Court Drama
Father sues Kalutara Balika Principal for
Rs. 10 million
by Kumar Wethasinghe (Daily News 25-2-2003)
A father
of a student of Kalutara Balika Maha Vidyalaya has sued its principal for Rs.
10 million claiming that she harassed his daughter in violation of her
fundamental rights. In this case the petitioner Sepala Perera, had cited the
Principal of Kalutara Balika Maha Vidyalaya H. L. P. Perera, as the respondent.
Perera alleges that the school's principal abused and harassed his teenage
daughter in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering at the school's
Kala Ulela where artist Sathischandra Edirisinghe was present.
Perera submitted a medical certificate from the Nagoda
Base hospital where the child was warded after the incident. According to the
medical report the child had suffered severe stress and trauma.
In addition she suffers nightmares.
The petitioner alleged that his
daughter who holds a "Natyakala Visaradha" was listed to perform at the said
ceremony. Following the announcement of her name to
perform the dance. She had appeared on stage. All of a sudden the Principal had
appeared from behind obstructing her performance and she had also abused and
threatened the child in the presence of the audience, the petitioner
said. |
Dry
Cleaning
Lighter Vein:
Kassippu to wash clothes?
[ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka] Feb 22,
Colombo: Wellewa police yesterday arrested a woman with a reputation of running
a hugely successful illicit “kassippu” operation while she was
washing clothes with kassippu.
The
woman, who had been tipped off minutes prior to the approach of the police, had
rushed to the well where she pretended to wash clothes.
However, the containers near the well were full of
kassippu, forcing her to wash the clothes with the illicit brew. The police who
were passing by were alerted by the smell of the kassippu, resulting in the
woman being arrested. |
Nightmare at nightclub over girls, beer and
cashew plate
By Tania
Fernando
(Sunday Times
16-2-2003)
A night of fun turned out
to be a nightmare for five boys who had visited a nightclub in Fort. According
to a complaint lodged by the five boys with the Fort police, they entered the
nightclub in a hotel in Fort around 11.30 pm last Saturday after paying the Rs.
500 per head entrance fee.
On
entering, a group of girls approached them and asked whether they would want a
bottle of whiskey. The boys declined to order the bottle of whiskey, as the
price was exorbitant. Instead, they ordered four cans of beer, according to the
complaint. The boys claimed that a nightclub employee had then told them that
they could dance with the girls only if they bought eight cans of beer. The
boys, however, stuck to their order of four cans.
After a few minutes one of the girls had approached a
boy and insisted that he danced with her and while dancing a waiter had
approached him with a plate of cashew nuts. When the boy protested that he did
not order it, the plate was taken to the table where his friends were enjoying
their beer. When the boys denied having ordered the cashew nuts, nightclub
security guards dragged the boy on the dancing floor out and allegedly
assaulted him.
The boys told police
that when the assault took place, they paid for the cashew nuts. But they
claimed the assault did not stop even after that. "We were beaten by poles even
after we told them that we had paid for the cashew nuts," one of the boys told
The Sunday Times.
In the meantime, one
of the boys rushed to the Fort police station and arrived there with a group of
policemen. Several security guards were arrested and three of them were
identified at a magisterial court parade this week. The Colombo Fort Magistrate
had instructed the Fort Police to hand the case to the mediation board as there
was a counter claim by the hotel security personnel. |
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