Around 2.5 billion more people will be living in cities by 2050, projects new UN report

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/05/1009852

QUOTES FOR LIFE

Depositors Of ETI Finance Limited Protested In Front Of The Company Building Demanding Their Depoists Back To Them

Ward Place in Town Hall area has been blocked this noon (17) due to a large number of depositors who had deposited their money in ETI Finance  Limited owned by Edirisinghe Group of Companies  have staged a protest campaign in front of the Finance Limited office in Watd Place demanding their deposit money.

The Depositors who have not received  interests for their deposits from long time had blocked the Ward Place and protested demanding their deposits back and to remove the four directors of the Finance Limited .

The depositors have  protested in front of the ETI Finance Limited in an earlier occasions as well ,However the owners of ETI had avoided meeting them it has been reported.

Due to the protest a traffic had been reported in the area this noon.

Three Air Force Officers Including A Female Trainee Have Been Injured Due To Hand Grenade Explosion

Three Air force officers including a Amateur trainee female officer and two Air force male instructors  have been injured and hospitalized due to a sudden Hand grenade explosion occurred during a Air force training exercise held at the Nariyakanda area  in the Diyathalawa Air force Training Camp this morning (17). 

The injured were admitted to the Diyathalawa Base Hospital for treatment.One of them is reported as in critical condition according to the sources.

Airline Passangers Requested To Be Present At Airport Three Hours Prior To The Departure Today Due To A Work To Rule Campaign

Sri Lankan Airlines have today (17) requested the Air Line Passengers who areflying abroad  to arrive in the Katunayake Airport three hours prior to the departure time until further notice,  due to the work to rule campaign scheduled to be launched by the Immigration and Emigration officers .This to minimize the delays due to the work to rule campaign the Airlines had stated.   

The Immigration and Emigration officers are due to launch a continuous work to rule campaign with effect from midnight tonight (17) demanding to solve the problem of their service minute.They had conducted a protest campaign in front of the Airport over the demand by wearing black bands this noon.

EBOLA Outbreak Now Spreads To DR Congo City

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44150762

Dil KI GIRAH KHOL DO ... A SONG ON LOVE SUNG BY LATA MANJESHKAR AND LATE MANNADAY FOR THE FILM "RAAT AUR DIN"(NIGHT OR DAY ) SCREENED IN 1967

LYRICS-SHAILENDRA
MUSIC-SHANKAR-JAIKISHAN

CAST OF THE FILM-LATE NARGIS,PRADEEP KUMAR AND FEROZ KHAN 

TRANSLATION OF THE SONG

Open the knots of your heart,
And all the layers that keep us apart.
Don’t stay quiet, come along.
For God’s sake let’s sing a song.
We are not strangers anymore, you see.
Oh! Come, come close to me.

Let the hearts meet this instance.
Let all constraints pass.
Let all chasms and distance
Drown in this glass.
I will smile into your eyes happily
If you promise to smile back at me.

We are no more ‘you and me’ it seems.
We have become something else.
Lost in the sparkling realm of dreams
We dance to these enchanting bells.
We need not ask anyone for direction
And may not tell them our destination.

Tomorrow someone may ask us
What happened to you yesterday?
Our hearts instruct us to move on thus.
Let us not look back today.
Let’s not call or try to find
people who are left far behind.

But do open the knots of your heart
And all the layers that keep us apart.
We are not strangers anymore, you see.
Oh come, come close to me…