Speaker appoints committee to review delimitation report on polls

Lankans arrested in Goa

Days after a Sri Lankan woman was arrested at the Mumbai airport for smuggling Rs.15 lakh worth of gold, customs authorities in Goa nabbed two more Sri Lankans for smuggling over four kgs of the precious metal into India. The two Lankan nationals, a customs official said, had the gold stuffed inside their rectums, the IANS news service reported. “The gold seized is valued at Rs 1.30 crore. Both the Sri Lankan nationals have been arrested. An Indian national who was travelling along with them has

20 Aug, 2013

CMC officers to be interdicted

Four officers of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) are to be interdicted over the burning of CMC files at the Borella cemetery, Colombo Mayor A.J.M Muzzamil said. The Mayor said that while the police are investigating the incident he had requested Chandrani Samarakoon,?Commissioner of Local Government (Western Province), to interdict the four officers which includes a female officer. Over 6000 CMC files and documents were set on fire at the?Borella cemetery last Saturday but some of them were

20 Aug, 2013

No Pakistan militants here

The military today denied reports that Pakistan based militants were using Sri Lanka as a base to launch attacks on Southern India. Chief of Defence Staff General Jagath Jayasuriya said that the media reports to that effect were baseless. The Times of India reported today that the Maharashtra police have received a terror alert from central intelligence agencies warning that eight militants are undergoing training in Pakistan-based camps to attack targets in south India from Sri Lanka. Sent by t

21 Aug, 2013