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‘Nobody to prove photographic evidence’:
Channel 4 recycling old footage as new evidence
One of the world’s leading experts on digital video
systems and former head of CISCO’s Global Broadcast and Digital
Video Practice division Siri Hewavitharana commenting on the latest
video by Channel 4 (CH4) said CH4 was recycling old footage as new
evidence with a compliant forensic pathologist called Prof Derrick
Pounder to evaluate photographic evidence, but with nobody to prove.
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Probe on theft at museum
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has
been called in to investigate the theft of priceless treasures and
artifacts from the Colombo National Museum on Friday night by
burglars who broke into the building, Police Media Spokesman Ajith
Rohana told the Sunday Observer . When the theft was discovered by
employees of the museum on the following day,
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Independent report sent to all embassies and DPL
missions:
Channel 4’s video footage debunked
The Government has already sent the independent
report and the video footage produced by the Defence Ministry to
counter the bogus claims by the first “concocted Channel-4
documentary” to all embassies and diplomatic missions in Geneva to
debunk the brazen falsehood of the second Channel-4 documentary
telecast on Wednesday, Acting Media Minister Lakshman Yapa
Abeywardena told the Sunday Observer yesterday.
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More international bids for offshore drilling
Several offshore oil blocks in the North and
Northwest coast will be given to international oil companies for
exploration, Petroleum Resources Development Secretariat (PRD’s)
Director General Saliya Wickramasuriya said. He said that the
Government will conduct an international licensing auction in
several oil exploration blocks.
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Facelift for Galle Road with WB funds
The remaining section of Galle Road within the
Colombo city limits and Duplication Road will be brought on par with
the Galle Road in Kollupitiya at a cost of Rs. 2.5 billion as part
of the World Bank funded project to improve infrastructure within
the greater Colombo area, Colombo Mayor A.J.M. Muzammil told the
Sunday Observer.
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Royal won the second leg by beating Trinity 13 points (one goal and two penalties) to 9 (three penalties) in the second leg of the 69th Bradby Shield encounter played at Royal rugby grounds this evening. Trinity led 6-3 at half time. 
North Western Provincial Council member Ananda Sarath Kumara had been arrested for punishing a female teacher by forcing her to kneel down, for advising his daughter over a disciplinary matter.
A Lieutenant Colonel and a Corporal attached to the Commando Regiment died while a Major sustained injuries when the Land Rover they were travelling in crashed in to an electricity tower along Thabbowa Tank in Karuwalagaswewa area this morning.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared opened the reconstructed Iranamadu airstrip in Killinochchi a short while ago. 
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the Commander in Chief of Armed Forces, have appointed Major General Daya Rathnayake as the new Army Commander. 
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed the present Army Chief General Jagath Jayasuriya as the new Chief of Defence Staff with effect from August 01, Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake, said. 
A 45-year-old man who fell off the fifth storey of an apartment block in Kirulapona succumbed to his injuries last evening, the police said. The victim named Jayapalan, an electrician by profession was attempting to fix an antenna on the fifth storey when he had fallen to his death. 
The Iranamadu runway in Killinochchi will be declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa tomorrow.Reconstructed by the Sri Lanka Air Force the runway will be open for all domestic aviation activities.
Ministry of Fisheries is to bring a new regulation making it mandatory to obtain an insurance before fishing in the sea.
Two passengers who were travelling in a trishaw sustained fatal injuries when the vehicle crashed into a bus after the driver had fallen asleep. 
DIG Vaas Gunawardena who was in the CID custody for interrogation over the alleged abduction and murder of businessman Mohammed Shyam was hospitalised following a chest pain, the CID said.The DIG had been admitted to Ward 42 of the National Hospital Colombo short while ago.
