Kachchathivu feast :

IMBL patrolling intensified

Fishermen from Sri Lanka and India have thronged the Kachchathivu Island to attend the annual feast of St. Anthony’s Church and the authorities from both countries said that they had intensified patrolling on the International Martime Boundary Line (IMBL) to ensure the safety and security of the devotees attending the feast, officials of the two countries said.

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Sri Lanka Air Force anniversary:

SLAF rebuilds North and East

With his experience as a young officer during Sri Lanka’s first coup d’etat to topple the then Government under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and during the 1971 insurrections as a senior officer, Dissanayake witnessed the growth of the Air Force from its ceremonial outfit to combat level.

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Probe continues in hotel murder case:

Suspect remanded

The man who is alleged to have killed his newly wedded wife by slashing her throat with a knife after getting her drunk at their hotel room in Kollupitiya was identified by sleuths of the Colombo Crime Division (CCD), when they found the marriage certificate of the couple and a telephone number,

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Sunday Crime

Girl kidnapped, civilian joins police rescue operation

It was with much trepidation that we listened to a mother who narrated the spine-chilling story of how her three-year-old daughter Swastika was rescued by policemen from the clutches of death in the Arachchikatuwa last week. She related the hair-raising story at a press conference at the Senior DIG's office in Colombo last week.

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