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The 17 suspects arrested, including three Buddhist monks, were produced at the Gangodawila Court this morning following the attacks launched on the Fashion Bug warehouse and office complex in Pepiliyana, last Thursday.

The 200-strong mob, which commenced its first attack at a business institution situated close to the Fashion Bug head office and warehouse in Pepiliyana for unknown reasons to the management of Fashion Bug, had later moved towards company premises.
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Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Center for Human Rights and Research (CHR) strongly condemn the attack on Uthayan office in Kilinochchi today (April 3) morning. We see this as a continuation of media suppression in the North and the attempt to create a fear psychosis in the province.

The attack, which resulted in property damage and the hospitalization of three employees, is the 29th attack on Uthayan in its 28 year old existence (estd in 1985.) Earlier in February a newspaper distributor for Thinakural newspa

Minor staff of the Colombo national hospital who were on strike over the transfer of an employee, have been sacked after they left work today without permission.

The Health Ministry said that the staff were deemed to have vacated their posts as they had left without obtaining prior permission.

According to the Health Ministry, the minor staff had raised objections to the transfer of the employee to the Ragama hospital.

Britain says if the decision to deny entry to a British national with the Buddha tattoo to Sri Lanka recently was made partly on the basis that his safety could have been at risk, then it tells a sad story about the growing levels of religious anxiety in a country usually famed for its hospitality towards visitors.

Deputy British High Commissioner Robbie Bulloch, in a blog posting on the UK Foreign Office website, said that while visitors need to be better informed and respectful of the countries they are visiting, a degree of

The Ministry of Higher Education states that over been received from students who have gained university entrance this year.

Director General of Student Affairs at the Ministry of Higher Education, Keerthi Suranjith Mawallage says that these appeals will be addressed before the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.

The police have commenced investigations into an attack on the Udayan Newspaper office in Kilinochchi.

According to the police, the attack was carried out by an unidentified group at dawn Wednesday.

Police said that seven masked individuals had attacked the Udayan Newspaper office in Kllinochchi.

Doctors on strike in the Polonnaruwa District


Doctors in the Polonnaruwa district have commenced a strike.

Chairman of the Polonnaruwa Branch of the Government Medical Officers' Association, Dr. Nihal Gunathilaka says that the strike is being carried out in protest against the alleged corrupt activities of a Public Health Inspector in the district.

According to Indian media reports, The authorities of The Kudankulam Nuclear power plant in India, say that the power plant will not cause any harm to the environment or public and added that only steam was released from the valves that were tested.

The Nuclear power plant was warned by the People's Movement against Nuclear Energy as a possible threat to Sri Lanka.

Perhaps most shocking was that they came in military uniform to an arts festival. It could have been a bold move to include a session on war reporting in the latest literary event in the Sri Lankan capital – Colomboscope. Sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank and organised by the British Council and Goethe Institute, the boundaries of freedom of expression should at least have been nudged forward a little.

What Ven.GalabodaAththe Gnanasara says is incorrect about containers of arms were brought to help the LTTE

The Secretary General of the Bodu Bala Sena organization Ven.GalabodaAththe Gnanasara had emphasised at a meeting held the other day at Panadura that during the time of the war the late Minister H.M Ashraff had supplied the LTTE two containers full of weapons.