A 22 year old youth has drowned whilst bathing in a river at Halwatura,area in Bulathsinghala this evening (26).
The deceased youth was a resident of Horana area and had drowned whilst bathing in a river with few other youth it has been revealed.His body had sent to Ingiriya Base Hospital for the Post Mortem.
Ratnapura Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne had yesterday (25) sentenced the former retired Senior Deputy Inspector General Of Police (DIG) Lalith Wijesinghe a five year rigorous imprisonment and ordered to pay Rs.20,000 as the fine over influencing the OIC in Kahawatte Police to avoid arresting the murder suspect Podujana Peramuna MP Premalal Jayasekare alias "Choka malli" .
The Former retired Senior DIG was charged for influencing the Kahawatte OIC from carrying out his duties when he was the senior supirintendent of police in Ratnapura district.
The All Ceylon Bakery Owners Association had announced that the Association will reduce the price of the loaf of Bread weighing 450 Grammes if the Government reduce taxes imposed on the ingredients used to make bread.
If the Government can reduce the taxes a loaf of bread will bw reduced to Rs.100 the Association has stated.
Two persons were killed and another three were critically injured and hospitalized after the Three whealer they were travelling in colliding with a Private Bus at Galewela ,Beligamuwa area on Kurunagala -Dambulla main road this morning (24).
The injured were admitted to the Galewela provincial Hospital for treatment and critically injured child and an adult were transferred to Dambulla and Kandy National hospitals respectively for further treatment according to the Police.The deceased and injured persons had been reported as residents of Arachchikatuwa area.
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board had iimplemented a twelve hour long water cut in five divisions in Colombo City since 6 P.M last evening (23) due to an essential maintainance work of a pipeline according to the Board.
Accordingly water supply to Colombo 11,12,13,14 and 15 is being stopped since 6 p.m last evening until 5 am this morning (24)due to the essential maintainance work of the Ambatale water supply system improvements and energy savings .
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