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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Electricity Board Employees To Launch An Island Wide Strike From Tomorrow (18)As A Protest Against Police Attacks Over Protesting Employees

The employees attached to Joint Trade Union Alliance

of Ceylon Electricity Board have decided to launch an island wide strike from tomorrow (18)to protest against the assaulting of their employees by the Police to rescue Electricity Board chairman who was taken as a hostage by the protesting employees.

The Police teams entered the Ceylon Electricity Board headquarters in Colombo fort around 8 p.m have removed the protesters who surrounded the CEB Chairman Ganegala's office room to rescue the Chairman and during the process Police teams have attacked the Protesters the Trade Union Alliance had claimed.

Ceylon Electricity Board Employees Taken The Board Chairman As A Hostage For More Than Eight Hours-Police Rescued The Chairman

A tense situation was occurred in Ceylon Electricity

Board (CEB) headquarters in Colombo this evening (17)after a group of employees of the Electricity Board had taken Board chairman W.B Ganegala as a hostage for more than eight hours since evening while protesting by demanding solutions for few of their service demands.

The Police and Riot Police officers who had entered the Electricity Board headquarters have rescued the CEB Chairman from the hands of protesting employees few hours ago according to reports.

The Joint Trade Union Alliance of Ceylon Electricity Board which led the protest campaign demanded to solve few of their service problems including removal of salary anomalies.The protesters had blocked the office room of the CEB chairman during the protest .

France's baby milk scare: Police search Lactalis sites

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Investigators arrive at the Lactalis group headquarters on 17 January 2018

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A Female Teacher Was Arrested Over Accepting Money From Parents Of A Student

Katugasthota Police have arrested a female teacher attached to a leading school in Kandy District over taking Rs.100,000 as a bribe from the parents of a Student by promising to admit the student to the Grade One class of the school yesterday(16).

The arrest was made as per a complaint made by the parents of the Student it has been revealed.

The suspected Teacher has accepted the bribe in 2015 and told the Parents of the student that if she fails to admit the student to the Class will return the money to them .However the Teacher failed to admit the student to the School and not return the money she had taken by them parents have complained.