Popular Local Actress Neeta Fernando has won the Best Actress Award presented in the foreign language film category at Nice International Film Festival held In France. She has won this Award for her character role in the film "Panshu" directed by V.Chandrasekeran .
A tense situation had occurred among residents in Dummalasuriya area at North Western Province today (19) due to a false rumor spreads around that a group of persons are trying to attack the area .
Army and Police personal have tightened the security in the area as a result .
This rumour has spreads after the Navy diver have recovered around 500 used empty cartridges utilize for T-56 weapons left under a karandawila bridge near dummalasuriya town according to reports. Steel collectors of the area believes to be brought these empty cartridges to the area some time back.
More than 10,000 local and foreign tourists mainly locals had been visited Historical Sigiriya fortress since yesterday (18)according to the Secretary of the Ministey Of Cultural Affairs Bernard Wasantha .
Many local tourists have been visited Sigiriya since yesterday due to the three day programme introduced by Central Cultural Fund for locals to access Sigiriya free of charge it has been revealed. This programme will be concluded tomorrow (Momday ).
Due to the large number of arrivals a queue has been seen on top of the Sigiriya fortress according to reports .People also visited the display of ancient art works recovered through excavations in Sigiriya held at Sigiriya museum.
Yesterday (18) Herbal water dan sala was held at Sigiriya premises for the visiting tourists.
Security is being provided to the visitors coming to Sigiriya authorities have stated .
tax imposed on big anions by Rs.20 from Rs.20 to Rs.40 in view of protecting Local Big anion farmers according to Agriculture Minister P.Harrison .
Usually the tax imposed on Imported Big anions will be increased when nearing local Big Anion harvest season since the past it has been revealed.This time government has decided to increase the tax during big anion cultivation season as importers getting use to import Big anions to the country this time Minister has stressed.
The Gazette Notification regarding this scheduled to be isaved shortly .
A group called Tamil Cyber Force was behind the cyber attack launched against 12 Sri Lankan Websites with domains. lk and .com today (19)according to Sri Lanka Computer Responsive Readiness Team .
Twelve Websites including Website of Kuwait Embassy in Colombo ,Website of Rajarata University and private sector websites have been subjected for this cyber attack .The hackers who launched the attack had managed to change data Bases in these sites and displayed a flag similar to that of LTTE the team has stressed.
The cyber attack has been launched against the celebrating 10 th anniversary of winning the war against LTTE authorities believes .
However information of such an attack had been supplied to the relevent officials prior to the cyberattack but no step had been taken to prevent it the Team has stated.
Popular Local Actress Neeta Fernando has won the Best Actress Award presented in the foreign language film category at Nice International Film Festival held In France.
