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Police Have Recovered Three Hand Grenades At A State Institution Vehicle Yard In Slave Island

Police have recovered three hand grenades at a entrance of a vehicle yard belonging to a State Institute in Union Place,Slave Island this morning(22).
 
The three grenades which found under a damaged vehicle had been defused by the Bomb Disposal  Squad .

Police protection had provided for the area and the officials of the Criminal Investigations Division(CID)  too arrived in the place for an investigations it has been reported. 

National Child Protection Authority Has Commenced An Investigation On Using 250 Small School Children To Hold The World's Longest Saree Fall

The National Child Protection Authority has launched an investigation on using of 250 under aged School Children attached to the Alawathugoda Primary School to hold a 3800 meter long fall of a traditional Kandyan Saree(Osariya) of a Bride who is a model from Gatambe Junction to Eriyagama Junction  for four hours while the Bride attempted to set a new guineas world record of wearing the longest fall of a saree  last morning(21) in Kandy.

 The teachers of the Alawathugoda School supervised the primary School Children when they hold the fall of the Saree of the Bride and the Chief Minister of Central Province Sarath Ekanayake had attended as the chief guest of the event organized by a Beautician in the area and attended by some Buddhist Monks and higher Police Officers as well.

The school Children used to hold the Bride's Saree fall are students of Garde 2,3 and 4 of Alawathugoda Primary School it has been revealed.

According to the organizers around Rs.2.7 million has spent to prepared the long Saree fall and around 100 of the school children attended the occasion were dressed as flower girls of the couple .

The Teachers trade unions have criticized heavily on the move of school authorities over participating the small school children to the event which was organized by closing down a lane of the road to allow the wedding procession and to break the previous world record of displaying the world's longest Saree fall in India which was 2800 meter long.

The Person Arrested Over Attempting To Enter Former President Rajapakshe's House Had Been Remanded

The person arrested with a sharp object over attempting to enter the official residence of former President Mahinda Rajapakshe at Wijerama Road in Colombo-07 had been remanded until 06th of October after being produced before the  Colombo Chief Magistrate today(22).

The suspect was arrested yesterday (21) after showing a knife  to the security officers  of  former President's official residence and threatened to kill himself  following the security officers  refusal to allow him to meet former president Rajapakshe.

The suspect has been identified as a 30 year former Buddhist Monk residing in Balangoda area.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate had questioned the suspect after being produced before the court on why he attempted to enter former President's house and he answered as it's a strictly confidential thing.

The Court has ordered the Police to get a medical report through a Psychiatrist on the suspect's mental health.

 

New Antibody Attacks 99% Of HIV Strains

Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates.It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus - making it harder for HIV to resist its effects.The work is a collaboration between the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi.The International Aids Society said it was an "exciting breakthrough". Human trials will start in 2018 to see if it can prevent or treat infection.Our bodies struggle to fight HIV because of the virus' incredible ability to mutate and change its appearance.There varieties of HIV - or strains - in a single patient are comparable to those of influenza during a worldwide flu season.So the immune system finds itself in a fight against an insurmountable number of strains of HIV.

Super-antibodies

But after years of infection, a small number of patients develop powerful weapons called "broadly neutralising antibodies" that attack something fundamental to HIV and can kill large swathes of HIV strains.
Researchers have been trying to use broadly neutralising antibodies as a way to treat HIV, or prevent infection in the first place.

The study, published in the journal Science, combines three such antibodies into an even more powerful "tri-specific antibody".
Dr Gary Nabel, the chief scientific officer at Sanofi and one of the report authors, told the BBC News website: "They are more potent and have greater breadth than any single naturally occurring antibody that's been discovered."
The best naturally occurring antibodies will target 90% of HIV strains.
"We're getting 99% coverage, and getting coverage at very low concentrations of the antibody," said Dr Nabel.
Experiments on 24 monkeys showed none of those given the tri-specific antibody developed an infection when they were later injected with the virus.
Dr Nabel said: "It was quite an impressive degree of protection."
The work included scientists at Harvard Medical School, The Scripps Research Institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

'Exciting'

Clinical trials to test the antibody in people will start next year.
Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, the president of the International Aids Society, told the BBC: "This paper reports an exciting breakthrough.
"These super-engineered antibodies seem to go beyond the natural and could have more applications than we have imagined to date.
"It's early days yet, and as a scientist I look forward to seeing the first trials get off the ground in 2018.
"As a doctor in Africa, I feel the urgency to confirm these findings in humans as soon as possible."
Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it was an intriguing approach.
He added: "Combinations of antibodies that each bind to a distinct site on HIV may best overcome the defences of the virus in the effort to achieve effective antibody-based treatment and prevention."
(Source-BBC)