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Monday, September 21, 2015

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Puttalam Hospital Nursing Staff To Launch Four Hour Strike Tomorrow(22)

The nursing staff attach to the Puttalam General Hospital(In North Western Province) are due to launch a four hour strike from 8 a.m to 12 noon tomorrow(22) by demanding to release all the nurses in hospital who are under transfer orders with immediate effect according to the All Ceylon Nurses Union.

The president of the All Ceylon Nurses Union,Gamini Kumarasinghe has said around 35 Nurses attached to the Puttalam Hospital are on transfer orders since more than six years and the hospital authorities so far released only 10 nurses out of them due to the shortage of new nursing recruitment's.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Death Toll Of Final Phase Of The Sri Lankan War Against LTTE Militants Was 7700 Not 40,000 As Mentioned In UN Report-Justice Paranagama

Justice Paranagama

The chairman of the Sri Lankan Commission On Missing Persons and War Crimes Justice Maxwell Paranagama has said today(21) the death toll of the final phase of Sri Lankan war against LTTE Militants was around 7700 and not 40,000 as mentioned by United Nations Human Rights Report of 2011 which released last week.

Justice Parangama has told the Indian Media, the members of Sri Lankan Commission On Missing Persons And War Crimes have personally visited the houses situated in war torn areas and collected this information.

The Report of Sri Lankan Commission On Missing Persons And War Crimes has not been considered When preparing the UN Human Rights Commission Report Justice Paranagama has stressed.

"PARIS AT NIGHT" (1951)A FAMOUS ABSTRACT PAINTING OF YESTERYEAR PORTUGUESE FEMALE ARTIST MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DE SILVA

THIS COLORFUL PAINTING WAS DONE BY PORTUGUESE ABSTRACIONIST PAINTER MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DE SILVA(1908-1992).SHE WAS MAINLY EXHIBITED HER PAINTINGS IN FRENCH CAPITOL PARIS SINCE 1930 AND IN 1956 SHE HAS OBTAINED FRENCH CITIZENSHIP.SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE HONORED WITH FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S GRAND PRIX NATIONAL DES ARTS IN 1966.

LOVE THE WAY SHE HAS PRESENTED THIS ART WORK.

Prisons Department To Recruit Intelligence Officials For Courts In Colombo District

Hulftsdorf Court Complex

The Prisons Department has decided to recruit intelligence officials for every court in Colombo District with immediate effect.

To minimize the illegal activities occurred at court complexes in Colombo City has prompted this decision according to Commissioner General Of Prisons Rohana Pushpakumara.

Under this programme four intelligence officials were recruited for the Hulftsdorf Court Complex with effect from today(22) and intelligence officials are due to be recruited for the courts in Colombo Fort,Mariakanda,Nugegoda and Mount Lavinia by tomorrow(22)the Prisons Commissioner General has said.