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‘Beware of professional fraudsters’:
FIB to help depositors
SSP Maxi Proctor, Head of the Fraud Investigations Bureau (FIB) said
that there are many professional money launderers who take innocent
people for a ride by making them invest their hard-earned money in
various money-making schemes.
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CID grills Sakvithi
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has begun questioning
A. Chandana Veerakumara alias Sakvithi Ranasinghe and his wife
Anuradini whether they had stashed the ill-gotten money of the
depositors in a foreign country while they were abroad for almost
two years, Police Media Spokesman Superintendent of Police
Prishantha Jayakody told the Sunday Observer.
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Govt airlifts dry rations to Pakistan
The Government will send a consignment of dry rations worth nearly
Rs. 2.1 million to Pakistan as flood relief items. The Ministry of
External Affairs will despatch the consignment along with Lanka
Sathosa on the directive of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Over 20 UNP MPs ready to join Govt - Prabha Ganeshan
Parliamentarian Prabha Ganeshan, who crossed over to the Government
on Thursday said that over 20 UNP parliamentarians were ready to
join the Government due to the instability and internal crisis for
power in the Opposition.
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Strategy pays dividends, says expert on
terrorism:
Govt commended for KP’s transformation
An international expert on terrorism, Prof. Rohan Gunaratne
commended the Government on its success with KPs complete
transformation from an ex-terrorist to a key stakeholder in the post
conflict humanitarian activities.
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The visiting foreign Minister of Seychelles Jean Paul Adams and Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris held bi-lateral discussions at the Foreign Ministry this evening.
Sri Lanka registered a superb 35 (five goals) points to 10 (one goal and one penalty) victory over Singapore in their Asian Five Nations Rugby Division 1 tournament match played at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines today.
Two Thai women who were pretending pregnant mothers, were apprehended while attempting to smuggle 162 cocaine tablets. 
The Government decision to increase the import tax on motor vehicles was aimed at controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the vehicle fleet of the country as excessive number of vehicles have been imported to the country during the past three years, Acting Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today. “We had no other intention behind this move other than controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the road network”, the Minister said.
The Catholic Church today appealed to the President to halt any amendments leading to relax existing Abortion Law of the country, cautioning that such measures would aggravate the social issue and deprive children of their right to life. 
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Wednesday night that the new head of the government’s Socialist Left party (SV) has ousted veteran SV politician and former party leader Erik Solheim as the government minister in charge of both environmental and foreign aid issues.
The Department of Wildlife and Conservation (DWLC) has launched an investigation why the army shot two wild elephants in Bundala yesterday. According to environmentalists one jumbo was shot in the head and the other sustain similar gun shot injuries.
The Sri Lankan delegation, who left the country Wednesday to attend the 19th session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva, Switzerland, says they have a well-organized plan to counteract the arguments against Sri Lanka.
Eight Indian fishermen from Keechankuppam fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam district sustained injuries in an alleged mid-sea attack by Lankan fishermen at midnight on Tuesday.
The UK still believes that a process led in Sri Lanka is better than one led internationally, said the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Alistair Burt, participating in a debate on the situation in Sri Lanka in the House of Commons yesterday (22).
In a new boost to Sri Lanka’s geo-textile industry and Sri Lanka’s standing as world’s largest exporter of coir fibre, a top US government agency has cleared the way for Sri Lankan made geo-textiles for two projects. 
