Restaurant Chain 'Cut Sugary Drink Sales' With Price Rise

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41637931

FROM YESTERYEAR SINHALA CINEMA:A SONG FROM "DAIWAYOGAYA" FILM SCREENED IN 1959

THE MAIN CAST OF THE FILM-LATE RUKMANI DEVI AND SENADHEERA KURUPPU

THIS SONG WAS SUNG BY LATE MOHIDEEN BEIG

A Heroin Dealer Has Been Sentenced A Life Imprisonment

Colombo High Court has yesterday (16)sentenced a

person who was found guilty over dealing with Heroin and keeping   Heroin  in possession ,a life imprisonment.

Police Narcotics Bureau had arrested the accused in 2009 at Gothatuwa with around 03 grammes and 91 mili grammes of Heroin in possession.

Foreign-Many Killed As Ophelia Winds Fan Wildfires In Portugal And Spain

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/portu

gal-spain-wildfires-forest-fires-ophelia-villages-evacuated

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Eight Persons Including MP Namal Rajapakshe Arrested Over Obstructive Behaviour In A Protest Had Granted Bail

Hambanthota Magisteate Manjula Karunaratne has

today (16)granted bail to eight suspects including UPFA MP Namal Rajapakshe who had been arrested and remanded over an obstructive behaviour during a protest held in Hambanthota recently.

The suspects have been granted bail over various reasons including due to attend a seminar in Russia,one due to engagement and due to have a small infant etc.it has been revealed.

All the eight suspects have been produced before the Hambanthota Magistrate Court today,

MP Namal Rajapakshe and few other MP's have been arrested after they arrive  to Hambanthota Police to give a statement regarding the allegations leveled against them.