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Friday, August 31, 2018

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FROM BUDDHISM

Only Number One Zone Of Yala Park Will Be Closed Temporarily For Two Months -Rest Of The Zones Remains Open

Only number one Zone of Yala Wild Life Park will be closed temporarily for a two month period from tomorrow (01) until 01st of November according to the Wild Life Conservation Department.

Accordingly number two ,Three and four zones of the Wild Life Park will be opened for Tourists as usual and Tourists can access to these Zones through Galge-Kataragama entry Department has stated.

The Zone number one of the Yala Park will be closed temporarily for renovation work of road system and Tourist resorts ,Developing of infrastructure facilities and allow Wild animals to freely move in the Zone it has been revealed.

Court Has Ordered To Arrest Four Buddhist Monks Over Damaging State Property

Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne has today (31)ordered the Police to arrest four Buddhist Monks and produced before the court over damaging state properties during a protest campaign of disables soldiers held in Colombo in 2016.

The Magistrate has issued warrants to arrest Venerable Bengamuwe Nalaka, Madille Pangnaloka ,IhathaKande Saddathissa and Magadille Sudantha thero's and produced them before court over the charges against them.

The Magistrate has made this order when taken up the court case filed against the incident today.

However Magadille Sudantha Thero Has stated that they didn't receive any court order on the arrest and four Thero"s will be appeared before the court on Monday.

Court Of Appeal Had Rejected To Allow Lawyers Of Galagodaatte Thero To File An Appeal Against Prison Sentence

Two member Judge Panel of the Court

Of Appeal had today (31)rejected the request made by the Lawyers of Imprisoned General Secretary of Bodu Bala Sena Organization Venerable Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thero to allow them to file an Appeal at Supreme Court against Galagodaatte Thero's Prison sentence .

The Judge Panel comprised of President of Court Of Appeal Prethi Darman Surasena and Shiran Gunaratna had decided not to allow Thero's lawyers to file an Appeal at Supreme Court .Galagodaatte Thero Has been sentenced to 19 year rigorous Imprisonment to be served in 06 years on 08 th of August over contempt of Court charges .

However some members of Bodu Bala Sena Organization have stated that they will file an Appeal at Supreme Court against the prison sentence of Galagodaatte Thero.

A 60 Year Old Female Tea Plucker Has Died Due To A Wasp Attack

A 60 year old female Tea Plucker has

died and six other Tea Pluckers had been injured and hospitalized due to a Wasp attack at a Tea Estate in Urubokka area ,Matara today (31)

The injured Tea Pluckers were admitted to Urubokka Hospital for treatment .The deceased was identified as a resident of Urubokka area.