Wild Elephant attack at PaluKandawa area in Galgamuwa last night (18).
The deceased who is a resident of Palukandawa area had faced the Elephant attack when he had come out of the house to check a noise in the garden last night .
The Body of the deceased had been sent to Galgamuwa Hospital.
water cannons to disperse a protest conducted by the students of South Eastern University at Oluvil Infront of the University Grants Commission (UGC )Building in Ward Place ,Colombo 07 this afternoon (19).
Due to the students Protest Ward Place has been closed for few hours and as a result heavy traffic had been reported from Town Hall and surrounding areas .
The group of University Students had protested Infront of the UGC Building demanding to remove punishments imposed on a group of University Students attached to South Eastern University by the authorities .
of explosives believes to be made by LTTE including A Hand Grenade ,A Motor Bullet and four cannon gun Bullets near the runway in Thalladi,Mannar yesterday (18).
The stock of Explosives had been recovered during a search mission carried out under a court order obtained from Mannar Magistrate Court .
The Bomb Disposal Squad of the Special Police Task Force Personal is due to defuse the stock of Explosives recovered .
Soft Drink Companies have requested concessions from the Government for their products during the National Economic Council meeting held recently according to Minister Of Health ,Nutrition and Indeginous Medicine Dr.Rajitha Senaratne .
Addressing a function held at Meerigama, Health Mimister has said that Government has given priority to protect people from non communicable diseases caused due to things like Soft Drinks marketed by these companies not to provide concessions to the companies .
These Soft Drink Companies are spreading non communicable diseases among consumers by selling Soft Drinks with higher sugar content and due to this Government need to spend a large amount of money to treat persons with non communicable diseases he has said.
These Companies should act fairly in their businesses and their purpose should be to serve the people Minister has stressed.
Ministry of Health has recently introduced traffic light system for soft drinks and under this system the labels of Soft Drinks should display the sugar content of the Soft Drinks .
Government has also introduced a tax system to be imposed on Soft Drinks through the Annual Budget.
Wild Elephant attack at PaluKandawa area in Galgamuwa last night (18).
