Hotelier shot at farewell party

A hotel owner who threw a farewell party to his friends in the business community was shot and dumped on the rail track in a gruesome murder reported from Rideegama, Kurunegala on Friday night. The 39-year-old victim Disanayaka Arachchilage Anuruddha Bandara also known as ‘Kalu Malli’ was a father of two,

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A volunteer reserve - the need of the hour

The new trends in security need more professionals than soldiers. Today a battlefield is not the only place where a war can take place. Cyber war fare is a new trend where only the experts of the field can mitigate the intensity safe guarding the country. A natural disaster, epidemic or any such calamity need experts to mitigate the situation.

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Heroin smuggling, a growing threat to Sri Lanka

According to Wikipedia Heroin (diacetylmorphine or morphine diacetate, also known as diamorphine, and colloquially as H, smack, horse, brown, black, tar and other names is an opioid analgesic synthesised by C.R. Alder Wright in 1874 by adding two acetyl groups to the molecule morphine, found in the opium poppy,

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Ragging takes its toll:

Shattered dreams...

Dikovita Kankanamge Nishantha popularly known by his last name was overjoyed to hear that he was among those who were selected to the Peradeniya campus. Although he had passed the Advanced Level examination with flying colours he waited expectantly not knowing whether he will be selected or not,

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