Former Army Commander Retired General Rohan Daluwatte Has Passed Away yesterday (27)

The former Army Commander Retired General Rohan Daluwatte has passed away yesterday (27)at the age of 77 years .

The former Army commander had joined the Sri Lanka Army in 1961 and appointed as the 13 th Army Commander with effect from 01st of May 1996.

He had lead the Operation "Rivirasa "against LTTE during the Ealam war .

After his retirement he was promoted to the rank of General and later appointed as the head of the Joint Operations Command and afterwards as Chief Of Defense Staff.

President To Leave For Nepal Tomorrow (29)

President Maithripala Sirisena is due to

leave for Nepal tomorrow (29)to participate in the fourth BIMSTEC Summit to be inaugurated at Kathmandu ,Nepal on this Thursday  (30).

Technical and Economic Corporation among Regional countries related to Bay Of Bangal is due to be discussed during the summit.

The seven member countries of the BIMSTEC are Bangladesh,India,Sri Lanka,Nepal ,Thailand,Myanmar and Bhutan.

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Retired Major General Remanded Over Abduction And Assault Of Journalist Keith Noyer Had Been Further Remanded

Mount Lavinia   Additional Magistrate

had yesterday  (27) further remanded the former head of the Army Intelligence Unit retired Major General  Amal Karunasekare who was arrested and remanded over the Abduction and assaulting of former Journalist attached to 'Nation' paper Keith Noyer  ,untill 10th of September.

The suspected Major General was further remanded after being produced before the court yesterday .


Criminal Investigations Department had arrested the Retired Major General Karunasekare on 05 th of April over the abduction and assault of Journalist Keith Noyer on 22nd of May 2008 .

Five Railway Trade Unions Have Decided To Suspend Their Scheduled Train Strike

Five Railway Trade Unions representing Engine Drivers,Railway Guards ,Station Masters,Controllers and Supervised Management Service had suspended the Island Wide  continuous Train Strike  scheduled to be launched with effect from midnight tomorrow (29) after a discussion held with President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (27) the Unions have announced.

The Five Railway Trade Unions have decided to launch the strike by demanding solutions for several of their service demands including Salary anomaly problem and against not solving the Salary anomaly problem as promised by President during a discussion held in  an earlier occassion.

President has requested them earlier not to go ahead with the strike as   the report of Salary Commission is due to be handover soon.

SUN To Be Directry On Top Of Sri Lanka From Today (28) Until 07 th Of September

The Sun will be directly on top of Sri Lanka from today (28) until 07 th of September according to Department Of Meteorology .

Accordingly Sun will appear directly on top of Nawakkadu,Kalapum and Konda vil areas of Jaffna  District at 12.11 p.m today (28) the Department has stated.As a result a hot weather will prevail in the area at that time according to Meteorologists .

When the Sun is visibly travelling towards south It will right on top of Sri Lanka during August.

Meanwhile  the Department has stated that there will be occasional showers in Northern part of the country along with Eastern ,North Central and Uva provinces after 2 p.m today.