Sri Lankan Cricket Interim Board To Meet Tomorrow To Discuss Non Participation Of Indian Cricketers To Sri Lanka Premier League Tournment

The Sri Lanka Cricket Interim Committee is to meet tomorrow to discuss on the refusal of Board Of Control in Cricket Of India(BCCI) not to allow 12 of their Cricketers to participate the Sri Lankan Cricket Premier League(SLPL) 20-20 Cricket Tournament scheduled to be held next month in Colombo.The

BCCI has refused the no objection certificates to the Indian Players Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Manoj Tiwary, Saurabh Tiwary, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey and Paul Valthaty due to  the event has not organized by the Sri Lanka Cricket(SLC) but by a Singapore Based Private Company on it's behalf.

The BCCI Chairman Shasank Manohar has said by defending the Boards  decision that the Indian Cricket Board's Policy is not allowing it's players to attend private party organized tournaments.The BCCI has taken this decision after participating a meeting held yesterday regarding the Sri Lankan Premier League Tournament scheduled to held in R.Premadasa International Cricket Stadium in Colombo from 19th of July to 04th of August this year.

The Singapore based Somerset Entertainment which Sri Lanka Cricket described as the marketing arm of the Interim Cricket Board organized this League which International Cricket stars like Chris Gayle,Shahid Afridi,Kiran Pollard and Herschelle Gibbs along with Sri Lankan Cricketers are already confirmed their participation.

Three Baby Elephants Were Killed After Hit By A Train

Three Baby Elephants were killed when they were hit by a Passenger Train near Ambanpola in North of  Colombo today according to the Sources.These Baby Elephants were hit by Train when they were crossing the tracks  in a forested Area near Ambanpola.

The passengers  in the train were  unharmed according to the sources.

This is the second such incident happened involve in a group of Elephants in recent months when three elephants were hit by a train in  Eastern Sri Lanka two  months a go by killing two elephants.

It has been reported that atleast 100 Elephants are killed each year while the estimated 12,000 Elephant Population in the country on 1990 has been dropped to 4000 at present.

A Group Of Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers Deported By Britain Arrived This Morning

Around 40  Sri Lankan Tamil Asylum Seekers who fled to Britain and failed to get refuge there returned to Sri Lanka this morning after the British Government deported them back to Sri Lanka.

These Asylum Seekers were sent to Sri Lanka yesterday evening and the Air Craft carried them landed to Katunayake Air Port in Colombo this morning.They were handed over to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) for clearance after they have been verified as Sri Lankans according to the sources..

An Asylum Seeker who tried to commit suicide after British Government has decided to sent them back to Sri Lanka are also among the group it has been reported.British Government earlier said that they have sent a group of 13 Asylum Seekers to Sri Lanka yesterday.

National Anti Mosquito Week On Searching Dengue Breeding Places Islandwide To Be Commence On Monday

The National Anti Mosquito Week declared by the Presidential Task Force On Dengue Prevention will commence this Monday(20th) and last up to 26th of this month.During this week Ministry of Health along with other Ministries planning to carry out  door to door inspection on Dengue Breeding Places in all Houses/Buildings/Schools/Govt.and Private Offices throughout the island.

According to the Ministry Of Health legal action will be taken against those who found  are having Dengue Mosquito Breeding Places in their Houses/Offices and other Institutions under the Mosquito Breeding Places.

The Police and the Officers attached to tri forces of the Army,Navy and Air Force too participate this door to door inspection on Dengue Breeding Places during the Anti Mosquito Week Health Ministry sources said.

Sri Lankan Government Denied The Allegations Leveled By Channel 4 TV In Britain

Sri Lankan Government today has categorically denied the allegations leveled through a British Film "Sri Lanka's  Killing Fields" on deliberately targeting it's own civilians during the war against Terrorism.The said film was produced by British T V Channel 4 is currently screening in some western countries.

The Sri Lankan High Commission in London today issued a release regarding this film and said that
The Government of Sri Lanka is concerned about the distress the images in the Channel 4 film aired without any guarantee of their authenticity might have caused to the viewers, particularly to those belonging to different communities in Sri Lanka. This is an exercise which is carried out by a small section of international media at the behest of certain parties with vested interests and it caters only to the interests of separatist forces living outside Sri Lanka according to the High Commission., The final objective of which is to push Sri Lanka back to war, by way of lacerating the wounds that the country is attempting to heal.” it says.


“The Channel 4 film has the potential to incite hatred amongst different communities in Sri Lanka, including future generations, and thereby, adversely affect the ongoing national reconciliation process.”

The malicious allegations in the film regarding the conduct of the Sri Lankan Army are in striking contrast to the standards maintained by the Sri Lankan Army. As the Channel 4 has continuously depended on footage already publicized by the LTTE websites and media bodies and also those claimed to have been supplied by the pro-LTTE lobby, the viewers may use caution in drawing any conclusions on the basis of this film. Channel 4’s gross simplification of sensitive matters, on face value, insinuates only a sinister motive driven by a political agenda against Sri Lanka.”

“If the allegations leveled by Channel 4 or any other party are found to be genuine, the LLRC will take due note of all such cases and remedial measures will be taken by way of legal sanctions. This process will also take into consideration all matters that are important to the Sri Lankans living in Sri Lanka, and therefore, it should be allowed to continue without any hindrance or prejudice. It is recalled that reports of some well known Commissions in countries with much richer resources have taken decades to see day light.”





The Government of Sri Lanka continues to remain engaged with UN agencies, INGOs and peoples representatives on improving the conditions and the rehabilitation and resettlement of the affected people, the High Commission of Sri Lanka in Britain  has further stated.

Unsafe Abortions Are In Arise Among Married Women

Around 90 percent of women who are under going  Unsafe Abortions in the country are married women according to the Gynecologist Dr.Lakshman Senanayake.Unwanted Pregnancies and related Socio-Economic reasons are the main causes behind these Unsafe Abortions Dr.Senanayake stressed.

S peeking at the Media Workshop organized by  Family Planning Association (FPA) today he said that although some organizations and individuals giving  statistics of the number of Abortions performs in the country per day it cannot calculate correctly due to the lack of date available at the moment.Under the Penal Code of the country Abortion can perform legally only to  save a life of a women and even there is malfunction of the fetus or in a rape case Abortion cannot perform according to the law Dr.Senanayake said.

1350 HIV Postives And 313 AIDS Patients Reported From Sri Lanka Since 1987

Around 1350 HIV infections were reported from Sri Lanka up to now since 1987 and out of this number 313 developed HIV/AIDS according to the Director National Sexually Transmitted Diseases/AIDS Control Programme Dr.Nimal Edirisinha.The First HIV Positive was detected from the country in 1987.

So far 221 HIV Positives have died from the disease Dr.Edirisinha has said.According to the latest HIV/AIDS Statistics there are 47 infants who got the disease through their mothers and 9 of these infants are reported during this year.

However besides these statistics Sri Lanka still rated as the low prevalence country on spreading HIV/AIDS and currently the prevalence rate stands as less then 0.01% Dr.Edirisinha has stressed.